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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -
Mao Zedong
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. -
Alice Walker
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -
John F Kennedy
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. -
Raoul Vaneigem
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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot. -
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If not us, who? If not now, when? -
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. -
Barbara Tuchman
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. -
Alexis De Tocqueville
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. -
Norman Thomas
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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. -
Richard Hooker
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You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.'' -
Tennessee Williams
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