Revolution Quotes

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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

An army of the people is invincible!

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Big Brother is watching you.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

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!

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you, " he replied.

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

What a revolution in her ideas!

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

To die hating them, that was freedom

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.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.