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• Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Black History Month, Serious Things

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• A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Class, Violence, Authority

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.390, Open Road Media

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• The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Mind

  Song: Caught In A Hustle

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• No one makes a revolution by himself.

  George Sand

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.7

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• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Future, Fate

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  Fidel Castro

  Struggle, Past, Cuban Revolution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• How can you make a revolution without executions?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Execution

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• Revolution is not a one time event.

  Audre Lorde

  Events, One Time

  "Sister Outsider". Book by Audre Lorde, 1984.

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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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• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Views, Numbers, Liberty

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Revolutions are never peaceful.

  Malcolm X

  Peaceful

  Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.137, Arcade Publishing

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• Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Men, Independence, Together

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• True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

  Saul Alinsky

  Cutting, Hair, Radicalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

  John Adams

  Fall, Bad Ass, Justice

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

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• The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

  George Eliot

  Lawlessness, Rebellion, Wander

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

  Kim Jong Il

  Mean, Surfing, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Action, Social Change, Anarchism

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Thinking, Water, Rose

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  I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Men, History

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

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• Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Feminist, Combining

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Politics, Dictatorship

  "With Fidel: A portrait of Castro and Cuba". Book by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, 1975.

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• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lying, Action, Streets

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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