To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

09 December 2007

Slogans to Inspire Pakistani Students and Activists

Below are some of the slogans from another student revolt -- May 1968, France. We hope you find them inspiring for your struggle against the military regime. The Human Text Collective.
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  • No forbidding allowed.

  • Boredom is counterrevolutionary.

  • We want to live.

  • Don’t beg for the right to live — take it.

  • The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.

  • Those who make revolutions half way only dig their own graves.

  • No replastering, the structure is rotten.

  • We will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, occupy.

  • Down with the state of emergency.

  • Referendum: whether we vote yes or no, it turns us into suckers.

  • It’s painful to submit to our bosses; it’s even more stupid to choose them.

  • Let’s not change bosses, let’s change life.

  • Don’t liberate me — I’ll take care of that.

  • Let the people serve themselves.

  • Nature created neither servants nor masters. I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.

  • We will have good masters as soon as everyone is their own.

  • Don’t be taken in by the politicos and their filthy demagogy. We must rely on ourselves.

  • All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • We want structures that serve people, not people serving structures.

  • Politics is in the streets.

  • Barricades cannot close our minds.

  • Our hope can come only from the hopeless.

  • The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.

  • This concerns everyone.

  • We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated, sermonized, beaten, manipulated, gassed, booked.

  • Conservatism is a synonym for rottenness and ugliness.

  • Poetry is in the streets.

  • Revolution, I love you.

  • Practice wishful thinking.

  • I declare a permanent state of happiness.

  • Be realistic, demand the impossible.

  • Power to the imagination.

  • Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.

  • Forget everything you’ve been taught. Start by dreaming.

  • Form dream committees.

  • Dare! This word contains all the politics of the present moment.
    (Saint-Just)

  • When examined, answer with questions.

  • Insolence is the new revolutionary weapon.

  • Making revolution also means breaking our internal chains.

  • A cop sleeps inside each one of us. We must erase him.

  • Drive the cop out of your head.

  • Revolutionary women are more beautiful.

  • Only the truth is revolutionary.

  • Freedom is the crime that contains all crimes. It is our ultimate weapon.

  • The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.

  • No freedom for the enemies of freedom.

  • The future will only contain what we put into it now.

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