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.