Joseph Stalin Quotes

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a value on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

One of the beautiful things about a movement is that there are many strategies and many tactics contained within it. Not every participant in a movement is required to do exactly the same things.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Dissidents should be paid 13 months' salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

I subscribe to the belief that there is no progress possible anywhere where the differences of people are stifled, their voices not able to be heard, and where they all speak as one voice, when all of us know that human beings don't feel that way.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seeds of things to come.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

He who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that everyone else, or the majority at least, have been thinking and feeling the same things but without expressing them. he who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that everyone else, or the majority at least, have been thinking and feeling the same things but without expressing them.

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.