Revolution quotations

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◆ People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

- Patrick Henry99

◆ There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

- Vladimir Lenin99

◆ A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

- Fidel Castro99

◆ Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

- Jennifer Donnelly99

◆ It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Emiliano Zapata99

◆ Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

- Norman Mailer99

◆ Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

- Leon Trotsky99

◆ The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

- Malcolm X99

◆ Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

- Vladimir Lenin99

◆ The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

- Huey P. Newton99

◆ Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

- Adam Smith99