#revolution

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. ↗

— Bob Marley

#liberty #life #revolution #freedom

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#break up #bring #cars #home #kill

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#beginning #every #happens #impossible #inevitable

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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