Quotes about Revolution

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would, if such a right were a vital one.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.