Communist quotes
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"Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down."
"I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life."
"Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I."
"So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?"
"Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist."
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"What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists."
"The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!"
"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."
"Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future."
"The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial."
"Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore."
"We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society."
"The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N."
"Picasso is a communist. Neither am I."
"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
"When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it."
"I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?"
"I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it."
"Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center."
"It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists."
"It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party."
"As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward."
"Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people."
"Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have."
"The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before."
