#communist

I'm going to imagine that converstion now. 'Hi, Mom, it's me. I ran away to Paris with a stranger I met under a bridge. He's really old, too, like twenty-five or something, and a soldier, so I helped him desert from his army, and, oh, did I mention he's a Communist'... ↗

— Rosanne Parry

#humor #humour #rosanne-parry #soldier #imagination

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#communist #i #i am #movement #neither

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#committees #communist #congressional #conspiracy #first

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#communist #convinced #fantasy #goal #i

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#communist #communist party #controlling #party #represent

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. ↗

— Milos Forman

#communist #countries #films #know #literature

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. ↗

— Ang Lee

#bad #bad guys #china #communist #country

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#belief #certainly #communist #found #future

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#active role #always #because #colonial #communism