Who said this quote? HELP

[Stephen Colbert]

Who said the quote that goes something like

"radicals attack the roots rather than the branch"

or something... :crying:

[Guerrilla]

Do you mean this one?

"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."" - Angela Davis

[Stephen Colbert]

thanks

[Zanthorus]

Marx also said it:


To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter.http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm

I think I've seen others as well.

[ZeroNowhere]

Yes, it is quite common. For example, the SPGB had used:


As is our approach to other class evils, so our approach to gods and religions: we socialists strike at the root, we don't hack at the branches.

I am quite sure that De Leon had also used a similar phrase.

[mikelepore]

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau in "Walden"

[¿Que?]

Radical, from Late Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin) radicalis "of roots" and from Latin radix "root", may refer to:

Wikipedia - Radical

It's basically the definition of radical. I'd like to see someone do a compare and contrast between Radical and Fundamentalist. Doesn't grasping the "roots" of things not also imply an understanding of their "fundamental" nature. Just a thought...

[PoliticalNightmare]

Hmm I may decide to use this quote in one of my next lengthy essay style debates.

[EvilRedGuy]

I've heard "A Radical is someone who grabs the problems by the roots" from someone's signature.

[mikelepore]

Must be why radishes are called radishes. Root vegetable.