Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates."
Revolution quotes
Revolution
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Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions."
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out."
Huey Newton
Activist
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
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"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
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"Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others."
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"Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable."
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"By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them."
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"Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution."
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"The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution"
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"You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems."
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"We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution."
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"The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!"
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"My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!"
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"Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around."
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"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
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"All we ask is to be let alone."
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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
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"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder."
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"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
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"The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day."
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"Give me time and I'll give you a revolution."
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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