Revolutionary Quotes - Page 38

• You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

  Huey Newton

  Running, Country, Fighting

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• The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

  June Jordan

  Law, Justice, United States

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

  Anne Lamott

  Truth, Moral, Obligation

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• The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Song, Rights, Goal

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R.J. Rushdoony, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Truth Is, Rejected

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

  Rachel Martin

  War, Loyal, Population

  "What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

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• It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

  Tucker Max

  War, Gun, Men

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• Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

  William Beveridge

  War, Past, Opportunity

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 7), November 1942.

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• I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.100, Northwestern University Press

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• The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Benches, May

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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• a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Support, Balance

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• Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Thinking, Profound, Utopia

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• Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

  Jenny Holzer

  Outsiders, Produce, Alienation

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  Esther Forbes

  Hero, Men, Two

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• the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

  Georgia Harkness

  Truth, Found, Extremes

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1949). “The Gospel and Our World”

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• A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

  Janio Quadros

  Reform, Brazil, Castro

  "One Man's Cup of Coffee". Time Magazine profile, content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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• The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.

  Yousef Saanei

  Religious, Islamic, Leader

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• Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

  Assata Shakur

  Ghetto, Moon, Black

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• Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Trying, Mayors

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• You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

  Glenn Beck

  Leader, Needs, Guardian

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, East Germany, Air

  Source: portside.org

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• The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.

  Tim Buck

  Party, Communist, Cease

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Warrior, Antithesis

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