Quotations From ROSA LUXEMBURG

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  Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

  Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German revolutionary. The Russian Revolution, ch. 6 (1922, trans. 1961). Prison notes, 1918.
  
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  That is Lenin. Look at the self-willed, stubborn head. A real Russian peasant's head with a few faintly Asiatic lines. That man will try to overturn mountains. Perhaps he will be crushed by them. But he will never yield.

  Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), German revolutionary. repr. In Not By Politics Alone, ch. 4, ed. Tamara Deutsch (1973). Quoted in Zetkin, Reminiscences of Lenin (1929). Remark to Klara Zetkin.