Quotes about Revolution
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations.
— John Adams
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
— John Adams
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
— Malcolm X
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
— H Richard Niebuhr
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
— Max Born
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
— Leonard Sweet
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
— Shane Claiborne
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
— John Adams
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
— Thomas Jefferson
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
— Dorothy Day