1,549 Quotes About Revolution

I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice.

What I always hate is when people call our movement a 'revolution'. For this to be a revolution, we would have to be opposing a standing government. Look around; there is no standing government.

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

The purpose of revolution is not liberation, it's self-determination.

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

There will always be the Greece of the starved and the Greece of the satiated, and there will always be the Greece of the warmth in winter's cold and the Greece of frostbitten horror.That is why those children, of the poor and the rich can never play together as common Greek-borns.

The needs of the state and the needs of its people are not one and the same. They are, more often than not, as separate as could be.

Your fathers killed their government for far less, why won’t you?

He who tells the people false revolutionary myths, he who amuses them with sensational stories, is as criminal as the geographer who would draw up false charts for navigators.