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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Commitment, People, Achievement

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• He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.

  Abraham Cahan

  Party, Russia, Race

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• Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Business, Thinking

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• I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

  Robin Morgan

  Mean, Men, White

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf.

  James Cross Giblin

  Military, Cities, Government

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• Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

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• Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Girl, Dream, Determination

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Weak

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• Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

  Chris Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.

  Joe Conason

  Government, Europe, Leader

  Joe Conason (2007). “It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush”, p.135, Macmillan

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• All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Reality, Men

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• Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Discovery, Understanding

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• The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Reality, Secret, Tiny

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• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Two, Envy, Political

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• Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Democracy, World

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Weakness, Movement

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.503, Harvard University Press

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• Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Team, Passion, People

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• The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

  Curtis Bean Dall

  Powerful, Order, Nwo

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• In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

  Karl Marx

  Historical, Gentleman, Revolution

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.296, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Victory, Air Power

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Country, Freedom, Men

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• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  Will Durant

  Real, Character, Individuality

  "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.

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• Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Struggle, Revelations, Marxism

  "Quote Junkie : Political Edition". Book by Hagopian Institute, 2008.

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