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• So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

  Albert Mohler

  Ducks, Risk, Dynasty

  FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from Dec 19, 2013

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• I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

  Eamonn Ceannt

  Fighting, Advice, Enemy

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• The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Eras, Causes, Mass

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• I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

  Stokely Carmichael

  White, People, Black

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Perspective

  "On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis". Interview with Grace Lee Boggs, www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Ipads, Clothes

  "Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation with Angela Davis". www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

  Carol P. Christ

  Simple, Views, Stories

  Carol P. Christ (2015). “Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

  George W. Bush

  War, Two, Way

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.913, Government Printing Office

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• The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Art, Political

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fire, Ideas, Mind

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.432, Courier Corporation

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• Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, Men, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing unfreedom and the rebelling forces, thus breaking through the mystified (and petrified) social reality, and opening the horizon of change (liberation).

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Fate, Reality

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.62, Routledge

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• The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Working Class

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• Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, World, Sake

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• However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history...not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Unique, Simple

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• With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Kings, Islamic, People

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 4 (p. 244), November 1, 1978.

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• We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gaddafi, Fighter, Remember

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Finals, Path

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• Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Freak

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• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolution, Spirit, Creation

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

  Gerald W. Johnson

  Time, People, Rich

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• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.

  James Madison

  Fall, Independent, Men

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