Smoldering

 

When history is written as it aught to, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

- C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins

I have seen the destruction of the daylight / and seen bloodthirsty maggots / prayed to and saluted.

- Assata Shakur, Affirmation 

Every revolution is accompanied by anger. Anger does not necessarily make one blind. It is also active and temporary. Hatred, by contrast, continues to fester. When anger breaks out, one still has time to reflect — sine ira cum studio — otherwise one would be tainted by that so easily corruptible hate. Hate is a corrupt affect when it does not transform into the clarity of anger. Hatred loses its clear head and for that reason does not belong in the class struggle. It never finds its correct addressee.

- Ernst Bloch on anger and hatred

I told him him to leave and that it's not right to shoot people from our house. Of course, he continued to provoke me, and that's when I got angry and slapped him...At the end of the day a person shouldn't allow their fear to take control of them. 

-  Ahed Tamini describing the moment she hit an IDF soldier