Let us resist, arms in hand, the nocturnal raids of the gendarmes; let them know, at least, that since arrest means a slow and infamous death at their hands, they will have to take us in a mortal struggle.’ At Odessa, Koválsky and his friends met with revolver shots the gendarmes who came one night to arrest them.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Let us resist, arms in hand, the nocturnal raids of the gendarmes; let them know, at least, that since arrest means a…”
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This quote is a rallying cry for armed resistance against oppressive forces, illustrating the desperation of revolutionaries.
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