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• Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Reality, Visionaries

  Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

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• My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

  Howard Stern

  People, Promise, Scene

  "Howard Stern Enters the No Spin Zone!". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Creativity, Voice

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 28, 2015

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• The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

  Sam Keen

  Stories

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• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Thinking, Air

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press

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• Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Artist, Revolution, Creation

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• An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Oppression, Educator, Oppressors

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

  Raul Castro

  Party, People, Leader

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  Saffron Burrows

  Years, Giving, Documentaries

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Feet, Shelter

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• I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

  Laz Alonso

  Believe, Heart, This Generation

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Names, Agitation

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• A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Heart, Years, Mind

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• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

  Mary Daly

  Change, Inspiring, Doe

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Baby, Race, White

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• The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Spiritual, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.10, Penguin

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• Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

  Diane Watson

  Money, Kings, Commitment

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• There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

  David O. McKay

  Father, Land, Appreciate

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• It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

  Randall Terry

  Hygiene, Interesting, Guy

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• My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

  Bela Kun

  Influence, Proletariat, Mass

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• Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

  Mort Kondracke

  Hype, Medicine, Stories

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• To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

  Garet Garrett

  Views, Squash, Mind

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Bridges, Hands

  Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

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• The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Law, Understanding

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.155, Lulu.com

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