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• One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

  Bob Schaffer

  Prayer, Kindness, Peaceful

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!

  Barbara Mikulski

  Fighting, Squares, Equal Pay

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• We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

  William O. Douglas

  Doe, Tactics, Today

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

  August Strindberg

  Succeed

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• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  Fidel Castro

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Fidel Castro (2006). “Che: A Memoir”, p.91, Ocean Press

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  One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Benefits, Graduates

  "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

  Roy Jenkins

  Peace, Government, Scales

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• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  Edward Heath

  Quiet, Parliament, Radical

  Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.

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• We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

  Ronald Reagan

  Dog, Mad, Goal

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• I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Acceptance, Thinking, Rights

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

  Neil Young

  Country, Couple, Crazy

  "'Will I be deported?'". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. May 2003.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Language, Social

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• Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

  Pete Seeger

  May, Red, Incitement

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.

  Jerzy Buzek

  Europe, Velvet, Figures

  "Quotes on the death of Vaclav Havel". The Guardian, December 18, 2011.

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• Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

  Mark Carney

  Children, Long, Essentials

  "Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish" by Angela Monaghan, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2014.

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• We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

  Jay Bakker

  Believe, Focus, Church

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• The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

  Greg Palast

  Skills, People, Purpose

  Greg Palast (2003). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-finance Fraudsters”, Constable & Robinson

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• Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Philosophical, Struggle, Independent

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• People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Reality, People, Goal

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• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Social Unrest, Roots, Today

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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• Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Way, Missions, Mahdi

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• We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.

  Bill McKibben

  Believe, Ignorance, Opposites

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

  Robin Morgan

  Men, Yellow, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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