 Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. |
| The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. |
| It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. |
| The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship. |
| Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. |
| I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist. |
| In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. |
| I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. |
| I may as well say it, I have been married three times. |
| Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. |
