Revolutionary Leaders Quotes

• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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  The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

  Che Guevara

  Fall, Apples, History

  Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memorable, Political Revolution, Politics

  New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

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• Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Business, Thinking

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nature, Intelligent, Psychology

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Principles

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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• The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

  Paulo Freire

  Practice, Invasion, Different

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

  Steve Saint

  Christianity, Radical, Following

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• To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

  Paulo Freire

  Thinking, Self, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Party, Character

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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