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A. J. Muste Quotes:

A. J. Muste quotes

Ocupation: Activist

Life: January 8, 1885 - February 11, 1967

Birthday: January 8

Death: February 11


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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

source: - A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

Topics: War, Thinking, Lessons

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

source: - "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

Topics: World, Violence, Revolutionary

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

source: - "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.

Topics: Educational, Struggle, Class, Class System


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