Peaceful Revolution Quotes

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Character, Successful

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• We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Peaceful, Tasks

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, Usa

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, People

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

  John F. Kennedy

  Winning, Moon, Skills

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

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• We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Challenges, Chill

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

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• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  Malcolm X

  Peaceful, Revolution, Turns

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• The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude that we have the right to use them to serve our needs. We must supply these needs by other means.... If the vegan ideal of non-exploitation were generally adopted, it would be the greatest peaceful revolution ever known, abolishing vast industries and establishing new ones in the better interests of men and animals alike.

  Donald Watson

  Attitude, Believe, Mean

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• The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

  Bob Schaffer

  Prayer, Kindness, Peaceful

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Peaceful, President, Firsts

  "Mohamed Morsi, in UN speech, calls for action on Syria, Palestinian cause " by Priyanka Boghani, www.pri.org. September 26, 2012.

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• We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

  Roy Jenkins

  Peace, Government, Revolution

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• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
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  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

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• There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Adoption, Peaceful

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• This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Father

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• But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, America

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