Guerrillas Quotes - Page 3

• Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Popular Vote, Government

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fighting, Winning, Years

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Accepting, Impunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Past, Today, Amnesty

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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• [Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Spain, Should

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• [Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform, attract the base of the Moorish army, and see if they could undermine [Francisco] Franco's army through political warfare in Northern Africa combined with guerrilla warfare in Spain. Historians laughed at that, but I don't think they should have. This was the kind of war that might have succeeded in stopping Spanish fascism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Army, Thinking

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Suicide, Running, War

  "Nigeria Declares Victory Over Boko Haram - But Do Nigerians See It That Way?". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 27, 2015.

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• The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, France And England, World

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fighting, Army, Gentleman

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the Japanese (and later against Chiang Kai-shek's forces), and he translated some of Mao's works into Vietnamese. But it is clear that his own ideas on how to counter the enemy ran along the same lines.

  William J. Duiker

  War, Ideas, Enemy

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• If we offer a prize, so to speak, to anyone who manages to bring a country under his physical control - namely, that they can then sell the country's resources and borrow in its name - then it's not surprising that generals or guerrilla movements will want to compete for this prize. But that the prize is there is really not the fault of the insiders. It is the fault of the dominant states and of the system of international law they maintain.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Law, Names

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and - well, it's just a lot of painters and artists and filmmakers all within that scene, and it's very, very important to me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Inspiration, Artist

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Couple, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Government, Leader

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

  Robert Heinecken

  Juxtaposition, Aspect, Visuals

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• William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Fighting, Political

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Book, Iraq

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

  Roger Hilsman

  War, Village Life, Done

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• My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.

  Roger Hilsman

  Ideas, Mountain, Special

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  Aberjhani

  Opponents, Moments, Historic

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• Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  Aberjhani

  Black, Assumption, Individual

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• It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  War, Moving, Army

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• Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Reality, People, Inability

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Style, Actors

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