Quotes About Revolution

The choice, really, was to join the Revolution or suffer the consequences. In Farmington, as in most communities, the alternative to the Revolution was jail or banishment, but in Morristown, New Jersey, it was the gallows. There, the local court sentenced 105 suspected loyalists to hang, but it reprieved all those who enlisted for the duration of the war.

For enslaved people themselves—about 430,000 in the southern colonies, and another 50,000 or so in the North—the coming of the Revolution brought new hopes and new dangers.9 They could not have helped but notice the peculiar references to "freedom" and "slavery" voiced by their masters.

By treating all residents as American rebels, the occupying army made a false assumption come true. "Instead of destroying the Revolution," states historian Joseph Tiedemann, "the British army became one of its agents.

On November 14, 1775, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, made it official: And I do hereby further declare all indented Servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels,) free, that are able and willing to bear Arms, they joining HIS MAJESTY'S Troops as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper Sense of their Duty, to HIS MAJESTY'S Crown and Dignity.42

Vacuous pronouncements of good will meant little while "the violent spirit" ruled people's hearts. Time, and time alone, would heal the many wounds of the Revolution.

Two runaways who were captured by the patriots reported that three-quarters of the soldiers who manned the garrison were Negroes and that "all the blacks who are sent to the fort at the great Bridge, are supplied with muskets, Cartridges &c strictly ordered to use them defensively & offensively.

the American Revolution was our first civil war, pitting neighbors against neighbors and splitting families apart.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

I am trying to change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.