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• This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Rebel, Flags

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

  Paulo Freire

  Essentials, Roles, Transformation

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

  Lady Gaga

  Change, Believe, Use

  " Lady Gaga launches foundation to 'challenge meanness'" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Finite Number, Numbers

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• In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Done, Masters

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

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• To tell the truth is revolutionary.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Telling The Truth, Truth Is

  Antonio Gramsci (1957). “The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci: Translated and Annotated by Carl Marzani”

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• Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Humor, Feelings, Female

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• I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

  Fred Hampton

  Believe, Struggle, People

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• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Hippie, Political, Groups

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 86, 1980.

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• I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

  Abbie Hoffman

  Cute, Rebellious

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 222, 1980.

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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Agriculture, Political Revolution, Humanity

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Clay

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• It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

  C. L. R. James

  Trends, Culmination, Periods

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• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Improvement, Stressful

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• First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Ipods, Firsts

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.60, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Movement, Evolution

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Money, Business, Creativity

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• The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Emotional, Winning

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

  Courtney Love

  Fun, Believe, Games

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

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• If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

  George C. Marshall

  Christmas, Peace, Men

  Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army, September 1, 1945.

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• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  Karl Marx

  Revolution, Spirit, Generalization

  "Challenge to Karl Marx, Volume 25". Book by John Kenneth Turner (p. 219), 1941.

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• Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, War, Class

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.255, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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