"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening."
"What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears."
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Source: Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson (2004). “The Rosa Luxemburg Reader”, p.314, NYU Press
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