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• We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Prayer, School, People

  "O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home". "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, thinkprogress.org. 1998.

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• The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

  Bell Hooks

  Fierce, Progressive, Starting

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

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• America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

  Francis Parkman

  America, Long, Scene

  Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.19

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• The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

  Ward Churchill

  Lying, Order, Roots

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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Generations, Significant, Technological

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, Internet Revolution, Prosperity

  Lawrence Lessig (2001). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, Random House Incorporated

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• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Animal, Agriculture

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.

  John Robbins

  Important, Growing, Agribusiness

  John Robbins, Ocean Robbins (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.13, Conari Press

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• Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, War

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Differences

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

  William H. Calvin

  Cat, Leader, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin

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• The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Two, Climate, Coal

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

  Eric Linklater

  America, People, Insulting

  'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3

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• Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Jazz

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• Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Leader, May, Deficiency

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.

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• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Clothes, Littles

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

  Christopher Dawson

  Self, Creative, United States

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• No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion

  Christopher Dawson

  War, Passion, Past

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

  Marvin Harris

  Technique, Sugar, Introduction

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• Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

  Bhagat Singh

  Freedom, Real, Destiny

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• Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

  Andrew Solomon

  Shoes, People, Bed

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gold, Identity, Labels

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• The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

  Noah Levine

  Ignorance, Trying, Way

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