#revolution

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#african #always #dispossessed #hands #lead

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#country #none #only #other #people

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#born #country #decry #ever #history

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ↗

— Albert Camus

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We are revolutionaries. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. ↗

— John Updike

#barefoot #being #going #mere #naked

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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