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• Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dream, Needs, Remember

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.450, New Directions Publishing

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• It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Have Faith, Matter

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

  Socrates

  War, Philosophical, Greed

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

  Norman Mailer

  Literature, Individual, Periods

  "Barbary Shore". Book by Norman Mailer, 1951.

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• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Parent, Politics

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Political, Shadow

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.178, Penguin

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• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Insomnia, Law

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• All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Unendurable, Allegiance

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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• I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Womens Day

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  C. Wright Mills

  Real

  "Listen Yankee". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1960.

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Ems, Illusion

  Song: The Martyr, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

  Albie Sachs

  Impossible, Inevitable, Happens

  Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press

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• Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Papa, Mask

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

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• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).

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• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Abuse, Reform, Transfers

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  Aristotle

  Order, Mind, May

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Healing, Influence

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• Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

  Van Jones

  Phones, Use, Laptops

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• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Rebellious, Transcendental

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Sorry, Inconvenience

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• Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Compromise

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• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

  C. L. R. James

  Change, Running, Revolutionary War

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.116, Penguin UK

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