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• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

  Mary Daly

  Keys, Feminist

  Mary Daly (2016). “Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

  Raymond Aron

  Language, Speak, Skepticism

  Raymond Aron (1957). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• We create revolution by living it.

  Jerry Rubin

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

  Abbie Hoffman

  People, Trials, Festivals

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• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Plans, Reactionaries

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• Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

  Murray Bookchin

  Reality, Desire, Becoming

  "Desire and Need". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1967.

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• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  Kate Millett

  Names, Firsts, Execution

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.506, University of Illinois Press

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• Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Sports, Team, Fighting

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• But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

  Carl Safina

  Waiting

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Rain, Cereal

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• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

  Sara Gruen

  Morning, Giving Up, Sleep

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• When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

  Natalie Grant

  Loud

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• All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  October Revolution, October, Bloody

  Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Communion, Mistrust

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Rocks, People, Bleeding

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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Country, Communist

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• The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Reality, Europe, Conservative

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• The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration.

  Amr Moussa

  Frustration, Broken, Soul

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• Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

  Wael Ghonim

  Hero, Egypt, Names

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• Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

  Ivan Illich

  Powerful, Past, Light

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• You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

  Abdullah Ocalan

  Believe, Choices

  "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.

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• What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

  Sean Parker

  Winning, Bureaucracy

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