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Quotes About Revolution

Juchipila, cuna de la revolución de 1910, tierra bendita, tierra regada con sangre de mártires, con sangre de soñadores… de los únicos buenos!… —Porque no tuvieron tiempo de ser malos —completa la frase brutalmente un oficial ex federal que va pasando.
~ Mariano Azuela
Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.
~ Mariano Azuela
curro?… Usté es de otra madera, y la verdá, no entiendo cómo pueda gustarle esta vida. ¿Qué cree que uno anda aquí por su puro gusto?… Cierto, ¿a qué negarlo?, a uno le cuadra el ruido; pero no sólo es eso… Siéntese, curro, siéntese para contarle. ¿Sabe por qué me levanté?… Mire, antes de la revolución tenía yo hasta mi tierra volteada para sembrar, y si no hubiera sido por el
~ Mariano Azuela
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.
~ Marilyn Johnson
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
~ Otto von Bismarck
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
~ Bill Owens
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~ Henry Ford
We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
~ Nikola Tesla
Freedom is not given - it is taken.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
~ Che Guevara
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
~ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
~ Bhagat Singh
Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
~ James Connolly
You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
~ Immortal Technique
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
~ Jean-Paul Marat
The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.
~ Emiliano Zapata
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
~ Millard Fillmore
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
~ Max Stirner
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
~ Martin McGuinness
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
~ Che Guevara