REVOLUTION QUOTES IV

quotations about revolution


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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

URSULA K. LE GUIN
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The Dispossessed


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They never fail who die
In a great cause: the block may soak their gore:
Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls--
But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years
Elapse, and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world at last to Freedom.

LORD BYRON

Marino Faliero

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Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they want land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence. And the only way they could get it was bloodshed. The French Revolution -- what was it based on? The land-less against the landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it? Bloodshed. Was no love lost; was no compromise; was no negotiation. I'm telling you, you don't know what a revolution is. 'Cause when you find out what it is, you'll get back in the alley; you'll get out of the way. The Russian Revolution -- what was it based on? Land. The land-less against the landlord. How did they bring it about? Bloodshed. You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed. And you're afraid to bleed. I said, you're afraid to bleed.

MALCOLM X

Message to the Grass Roots, November 10, 1963

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Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

"Evening Dress", The Diabolical Principle

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Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.

WILHELM REICH

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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History is a relay of revolutions.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals

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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We

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There's no justice in revolutions, whose spoils are divided up by the Fates over the dead bodies of the freedom fighters who held out until the final hour.

AHLEM MOSTEGHANEMI

The Dust of Promises


But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.

NEAL ASCHERSON

"1989: how it ended", Open Democracy, November 4, 2009

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If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

EMMA GOLDMAN

attributed, Psalms of Anarchy

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Revolutions are only a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

J. NEWSINGER

Orwell's Politics


Revolutions are messy--even revolutions driven by the haves versus the have-nots; even revolutions fighting for change in board rooms and institutions versus in the streets. Revolutions are messy even if the intentions of the revolutionaries are noble and positive. How can we prepare ourselves for the messiness? What changes should we brace ourselves for? And what unintended consequences or unforeseen pitfalls should we look out for?

SHARNA GOLDSEKER & MICHAEL MOODY

"Show Me the Impact", Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 13, 2017


The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

MAO ZEDONG

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

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If we would trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes and all princes from slaves: But fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy, in a long story of revolutions.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Look what's happening out in the streets
Got a revolution (got to revolution)
Hey, I'm dancing down the streets

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

"Volunteers"


You can bump and grind.
Feeling fine.
You can twist and shout.
Knock yourself out, but you won't fool the children of the revolution.

VIOLENT FEMMES

"Children of the Revolution"


You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

VLADIMIR LENIN

"Dogmatism and Freedom of Criticism", What Is To Be Done?

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We live in troubled times
From the ghettos to an empty suburban home
We live in troubled times
And I'm 99 percent sure that something's wrong
It's all wrong
It's 99 revolutions tonight

GREEN DAY

"99 Revolutions"


As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed.

JOHN ADAMS

letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815

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