Quotes About Revolution

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other's difference with respect.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demand, the implementation of that freedom.

You can not take down the master's house with the master's tools Audre Lorde

For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out.

The image of the Angolan woman with a baby on one arm and a gun in the other is neither romantic nor fanciful

The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demand, the implementation of that freedom. However

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary demands, the implementation of that freedom.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. ~ Augusto Boal

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

Kako je jedna narodna i plebiscitarna, u su[tini antiautoratitativna i antidrzavna revolucija dovela do toga da je najdiktatorskija i najetatisti;kija politi;ka grupa preuzela vlast_ Kakvu veyu moemo uspostaviti izmedju nesporne radikalizacije ruskog dru[tva tokom cijele 1917. i boljsevizma

Ova drustvena revolucija se manifestira kroz vrlo razlicite aspekte, najprije ogromna seljacka buna, siroki bazni pokret koji ima svoje korijene u dugoj historiji, obiljezenoj ne samo mrznjom nego i dubokim zaziranjem seljastva prema gradu, vanjskom svijetu i prema svakom obliku mijesanja u drzavno vlasnistvo.

Kada su zatvori ili prepuni, pobunjenici i štrajka?i bili su odvedeni u ?amce i zatim sa kamenom o vratu, stotine njih bilo je ba?eno u Volgu 12-14.marta bilo je strijeljano ili ugušeno izmedju 200-400. Procjene, nesigurne broja buržoaskih žrtava masakra u Astrakhanu osciliraju izmedju 600 - 1000 osoba. Za 1 sedmicu 3000-5000 bilo je pogubljeno ili ugušeno.

Es cierto que la Internacional clama que «Hagamos tabla rasa del pasado» y que Mao se comparaba a un poeta genial que caligrafiaba sobre la famosa página en blanco. ¡Como si a una civilización de una antigüedad de varios milenios se la pudiera considerar una página en blanco!

In John Adams's worst nightmare, the story of the American Revolution assumed a different formulation: "The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislatures, and war.

There is all the same some truth to the allegation that — as one intimate put it — the American Revolution could be blamed on the Harvard College library.3

With each effort to suppress the spirit of liberty, Great Britain managed only to promote it.

To understand why the new president hoped to channel Adams's spirit is to discover not only where a daring revolutionary came from but where a revolution did.

He argued—in a line for which Jefferson would get the dubious credit, speaking of a different revolution—that "civil wars in the political systems, like bleeding to the human body, or thunderstorms in due season, are salutary.

En algunos territorios se desató una guerra civil de tipo racial que adoptaría su forma más cruda en Venezuela —«¡Viva el rey! ¡Mueran los blancos!», gritaban sus contrincantes en la lucha contra Bolívar en 1817—.