If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.