"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
— Jim Morrison

"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees"
— Emiliano Zapata (Documentos ineditos sobre Emiliano Zapata y el Cuartel General: Seleccionados del archivo de Genovevo de la O, que conserva el Archivo General de la Nacion)

"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
— Anaïs Nin

"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 Henry

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
— Malcolm X

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
— Malcolm X

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

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

"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 X

"We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution."
— Subcomandante Marcos

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart."
— Dorothy Day

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
— Leon Trotsky

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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— Leon Trotsky

"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"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

"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
— Huey P. Newton

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
— José Martí

"Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war."
— Norman Mailer

"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 Smith

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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— José Martí

"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."
— Daisaku Ikeda

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"An army of the people is invincible!"
— Mao Zedong (Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung)

""You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.
"Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."
"What do you make, Madam ?"
"Many things."
"For instance ---"
"For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly ,
"Shrouds."
The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive ."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."
— Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. "
— Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

"I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures."
— Gary Snyder

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
— Michael Collins

"It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman — and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze — as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter — one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process — sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock — demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution."
— Gloria Steinem (Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem)

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
— Thomas Paine

"But I don't shut up and I don't die.
I live
and fight, maddening
those who rule my country.

For if I live
I fight,
and if I fight
I contribute to the dawn."
— Otto Rene Castillo

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."
— Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)

"Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied “The revolution is not being televised” in paint pen. It was a “pointless” action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this. It was an act of love for that “hooligan” Arundhati Roy. It was an act of self-love. I don’t expect it to change the world, but on the other hand, I know it will."
— Inga Muscio (Cunt: A Declaration of Independence)

"The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot"
— Carlos Marighella (Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla)

"It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat."
— Washington Irving (Life of George Washington, Vols 1-5)

""MOVE FORWARD! MOVE NOW! Program yourself to feel with depth enough to know what's up and heart to sense the real.""
— Derrick Carter

"Para que los pasos no me lloren,
para que las palabras no me sangren:
canto.

Para tu rostro fronterizo del alma
que me ha nacido entre las manos:
canto.

Para decir qe me has crecido clara
en los huesos más amargos de la voz:
canto.

Para que nadie diga: ¡tierra mía!,
con toda la decisión de la nostalgia:
canto.

Por lo que no debe morir, tu pueblo:
canto.

Me lanzo a caminar sobre mi voz para decirte:
tú, interrogación de frutas y mariposas silvestres, no perderás el paso en los andamios de mi grito, porque hay un maya alfarero en tu corazón, que bajo el mar, adentro de la estrella,
humeando en las raíces, palpitando mundo, enreda tu nombre en mis palabras.

Canto tu nombre, alegre como un violín de surcos, porque viene al encuentro de mi dolor humano.

Me busca del abrazo del mar hasta el abrazo del viento para ordenarme que no tolere el crepúsculo en mi boca.

Me acompaña emocionado el sacrificio de ser hombre, para que nunca baje al lugar donde nació la traición
del vil que ató tu corazón a la tiniebla, ¡negándote!"
— Otto Rene Castillo

"Wenn die Menschen um ihre Freiheit kämpfen, erhalten sie durch ihren Sieg selten neue Herren."
— Lord Halifax