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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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  Long, Wake Up, Use

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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  War, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

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  Communication, Gun, Giving

  Zedong Mao (1959). “On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949”

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• Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

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  Warrior, Mind, Body

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• Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

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  Military, Sacrifice, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.182, China Books

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• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

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  Equal Pay, Principles, Fronts

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.298, China Books

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• What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

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  Struggle, Self Reliance, Overcoming

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

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  Passivity Is, Goal, Enemy

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• We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

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  Roots, People, Soil

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.273, China Books

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• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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• Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Miracle

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• Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

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  History, Historical, Enemy

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• Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

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  Friends, Enemy, Firsts

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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  Change, Military, Learning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

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  To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

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  Enemy, Good Things, Bad Things

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.15, China Books

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• Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

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  Hardship, Fear Of Death, Do Not Fear

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• Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

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  Drama, Passion, Winning

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• You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

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  Communism, Leftists

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

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• Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

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  Leader, Waiting, Trying

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

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  Enemy, Hammers, Use

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• Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

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  War, People, Would Be

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• It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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  Black

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• If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

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  Struggle, Would Be, World

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

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  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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