“Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a
piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually,
carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“Revolutions never go backwards”
~UnKnown
“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model”
Charles F. Kettering
Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost.
~Wellington
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“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a
sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up
first, then you’ll get action.”
― Malcolm X
“You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of
ism, but it’s hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those
dollars on you, your soul goes.”
― Malcolm X
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege
to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art,
our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance,
our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories.
Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to
believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they
are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their
weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy,
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The
proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to
win. Working men of all countries, unite!
~Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
― Abbie Hoffman
All men recognize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse
allegiance to, or to resist, the government when its tyranny or its
inefficiency are great and unendurable.
~Henry David Thoreau
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human
affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can
be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
~John Adams
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a
change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change
in the destiny of humankind.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a
revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must
be for a lifetime.”
Angela Davis
To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.
~Antoine Saint-Just
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
~Henry Clay
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
― Fidel Castro
“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
