“ Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. Rosa Luxemburg
“ During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town. At the s… Rosa Luxemburg
“ Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. Rosa Luxemburg
“ In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence. Rosa Luxemburg
“ Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. Rosa Luxemburg
“ What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset. Rosa Luxemburg
“ History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
“ I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression. Rosa Luxemburg
“ Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. Rosa Luxemburg
“ Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable… Rosa Luxemburg
“ People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital,… Rosa Luxemburg
“ The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination… Rosa Luxemburg
“ Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through thi… Rosa Luxemburg
“ The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of… Rosa Luxemburg
“ 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 ha… Rosa Luxemburg
“ Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. First of… Rosa Luxemburg
