Friday, November 18, 2011

On Revolution

1 . For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~ Mandela


2 . The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. -E Debs

3 . Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. -W Marsalis

4 . The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che

5 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK

6 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


7 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


"The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac



8 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


9 . Violence is man re-creating himself. ~Frantz Fanon

10 . I hate victims who respect their executioners. ~Jean-Paul Sartre



11 . Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~Simone de Beauvoir

12 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X

13 . A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~Tacitus



14 . The king must die so that the country can live. ~Maximilien Robespierre



15 . All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. ~Victor Hugo


16 . Tell the children the truth. ~Bob Marley



17 . Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ~Bob Marley


18 . Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ~Bob Marley



19 . Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ~Khalil Gibran

20 . Fight the power that be. Fight the power. ~Spike Lee


21 . He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ~Tacitus


22 . War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ~Thomas Carlyle


23 . Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover


24 . A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ~Elbert Hubbard


25 . A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. ~John Stuart Mill


26 . Those who live are those who fight. ~Victor Hugo


27 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


28 . To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~George Orwell


29 . History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ~Karl Marx


30 . Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ~Bob Marley


31 . Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ~George S. Patton


32 . First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mohandas Gandhi


33 . It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Mark Twain


34 . The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! ~Tupac Shakur



35 . Revolution is not a one time event. ~Audre Lorde


36 . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson


37 . You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. ~Ursula K. Le Guin


38 . Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable. ~Leon Trotsky


39 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur

40 . Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ~ Karl Marx


41 . I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.~Howard Mumford Jones


42 . It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. ~Frederick Douglass


43 . The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. ~Adrienne Rich


44 . To tell the truth is revolutionary. ~Antonio Gramsci


45 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


46 . The more you can increase fear of drugs, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ~Noam Chomsky


47 . The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.~Noam Chomsky


48 . If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky


49 . If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ~Noam Chomsky


50 . Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. ~Noam Chomsky


51 . "Revolution is not an action, it is a process." Huey Newton


52 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che

53 . We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- che


54 . I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.- Che


55 . "Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies" - Leon Trotsky


56 . Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism" (Vladimir I Lenin)


57 . "Fascism is capitalism in decay" (Vladimir I Lenin)


58 . "Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot" (Vladimir I Lenin)


59 . "An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"(Friedrich Engels)


60 . Religions is the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" (Karl Marx)


61 . "I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people" (Huey Newton)



62 . "I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images" (Huey Newton)


63 . "Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment" (Huey Newton)


64 . "Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system" (Stokely Carmichael)


65 . "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man" (Che Guevara)


66 . "I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting" (Che Guevara)


68 . "We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle" (Che Guevera)


69 . "Dont mourn, Organize" (Joe Hill - IWW Union Organizer, USA)


70 . The real revolution happened when people started using the internet to fight corruption and oppression. ~Mark Zuckerberg


71 . "Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall" Wolfe Tone


72 . "Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws" Leon Trotsky


73 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


74 . Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. ~Jesus


75 . Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.~Colton


76 . Revolution is the larva of civilization. ~Victor Hugo


77 . It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. ~Thomas Jefferson


78 . The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. ~Phaedrus


79 . The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ~John Hay



80 . Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ~Thomas Jefferson


81 . One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. ~Lenin


82 . Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


83 . Revolutions never go backwards. ~William Henry Steward


84 . Revolutionaries are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost. ~Wellington


85 . An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ~Henry Clay


86 . To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.~Antoine Saint-Just


87 . A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. ~Bertrand de Jouvenel



88 . Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. ~John V. Lindsay


89 . The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ~Abraham Lincoln


90 . Everything in a revolutionary is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution. ~Nechaev


91 . Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ~Karl Marx


92 . If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~George Washington



93 . Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



94 . When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



95 . We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


96 . "The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life." ~Tupac


97 . Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


98 . Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


99 . I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


100 . I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. ~ Martin Luther King , Jr.


101 . I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


102 . "Poverty is the mother of all revolutions." ~Steve Jobs


103 . Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


104 . Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


105 . A riot is the language of the unheard. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



106 . A right delayed is a right denied. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


107 . A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


108 . A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


109 . Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. ~Karl Marx


110 . The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ~Karl Marx


111 . If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman


112 . No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is thought carried into action. ~Emma Goldman


113 . You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. ~Fred Hampton



114 . You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~Huey Newton


115 . The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of workers continue to beat. ~Ernst Toller


116 . The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~Abbie Hoffman


117 . I was born in revolution. ~Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)



118 . The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ~Toni Cade Bambara


119 . Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ~Toni Cade Bambara


120 . We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. ~Georg Buchner


121 . Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ~Georg Buchner


123 . A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ~James MacGregor Burns


124 . A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. ~Daisaku Ikeda


125 . Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ~C. Wright Mills


126 . All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ~Henry Ellis



127 . The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... ~ Jean Genet



128 . Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


129 . To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~Rita Mae Brown


130 . We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. It is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~Hoffer


131 . Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! ~Malcolm X


132 . If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. ~Mao Tse-Tung



133 . A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ~Mao Tse-Tung



134 . The seed of revolution is repression. ~Woodrow Wilson


135 . No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! ~Fidel Castro


136 . A revolution is not a bed of roses. ~Fidel Castro



137 . When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo


138 . You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ~ Joseph Stalin


139 . Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. ~Mike Tyson


140 . Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ~Rosa Luxemburg



141 . The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.~Rosa Luxemburg


142 . The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. ~Rosa Luxemburg


143 . Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ~Rosa Luxemburg


144 . Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.~Rosa Luxemburg



145 . The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.~Vladimir Lenin


146 . The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.~Vladimir Lenin



147 . The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.~Vladimir Lenin


148 . Sometimes - history needs a push.~Vladimir Lenin


149 . Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ~Vladimir Lenin

150 . Fascism is capitalism in decay. ~Vladimir Lenin


151 . Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ~Vladimir Lenin


152 . The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. - Johann Most


153 . Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! ~ Johann Most


154 . When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre


155 . I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ~Barack Obama


156 . The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. ~Tupac


157 . Give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry


158 . How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! - Samuel Adams


159 . Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. - Karl Marx


160 . You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ~Malcolm X


161 . The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. ~Malcolm X


162 . Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. ~Malcolm X


163 . Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. ~Malcolm X


164 . Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ~Malcolm X


165 . If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.~Malcolm X


166 . It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Jesus Christ


167 . I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ~Malcolm X


168 . Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ~Malcolm X


169 . A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ~Malcolm X


170 . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ~ Thomas Jefferson


171 . He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.


172 . He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. Martin Luther King Jr.



173 . Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. -Karl Marx


174 . Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!" - Rosa


175 . “Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal

176 . "The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I." - Karl Liebknecht


177 . "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat." - Rosa Luxemburg

178 . Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. ~Tupac Shakur


179 . Revolution today or financial fascism tomorrow! ~Unknown


180 . Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JFK


181 . Every generation needs a revolution. -Thomas Jefferson


182 . If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. ~Henry Ford


183 . You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X

184 . Capitalist created GOD out of deceit and greed . ~ C.K. Pathak
                                                                                                                             
185 . Proletariat must capture Govt., to defend it's class interest . ~ C.K.Pathak




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