Revolutionary Quotes - Page 2

• Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Army, Men

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

  Huey Newton

  Mean, Community, Patriotism

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• History shows that there are no invincible armies.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Reality

  Broadcast address, 3 July 1941

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• England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lasts, England, Violent

  Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”

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• Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class

  Thomas S. Power

  Class, Giving, Enemy

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• Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

  Thomas S. Power

  Mistake, Lying, Lessons

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• Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

  Stokely Carmichael

  Stupid, Capitalism

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• Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Cold War, Nations, Ifs

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• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Revolution, Impossible

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• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Movement, Theory

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Order

  "Tremendous Trifles" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. 12, (p. 63), 1955.

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• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

  Denis Diderot

  Design, Religion, Use

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Coward, Dictator

  "The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified" by Peter Kornbluh, nsarchive2.gwu.edu.

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• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Compassion

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Freedom, Real

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• One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

  James Otis

  Men, House, Liberty

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Abuse, Reform, Revolution

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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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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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

  Israel Putnam

  Military, War, Eye

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• Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Victory, Overcoming

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• Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Products

  "Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone in 2007". www.nydailynews.com. January 08, 2016,.

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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

  William H. Prescott

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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