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• Revolutionaries don't get job security.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Security, Risk-taking

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• Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Stupid, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

  Polly Toynbee

  Women, Mean, Ideas

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Maturity

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

  Henry Clay

  People, Revolution, Rebellion

  Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.142

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• Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Careers, Apples

  "Apple unveils cell phone, Apple TV". www.nbcnews.com. January 1, 2007.

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Men, America

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• People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do what I want." So he had to be put out of the way quickly because he was a revolutionary.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, People, Want

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• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, People, Broken

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• It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, Prison

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Expression, Leader, Political

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• Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Class, People

  "Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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• This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Criticism, Majority

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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• I can also tell in whose hands I am. Do these hands tremble? There can be no doubt: these are the hands of a military officer. Is it a firm pulse? I say without vacillating: these are the hands of a liberator.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Military, Hands, Doubt

  Ricardo Flores Magón (2003). “Dreams of Freedom”

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• Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perception, Church, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

  Ouida

  Men, Air, Soul

  Ouida (1890*). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash."”

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• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Son, Men, Class

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• I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Drama, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

  John Dos Passos

  Hell, Poet, Heard

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

  Jenny Hval

  Needs, Stuff, Revolution

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Tout re  volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he  re  tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

  Albert Camus

  Ends, Heretic, Oppressors

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• In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, People

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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