“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. KetteringInsurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost.
~Wellington
― 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 DavisTo 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
