"Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot."
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"I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course."
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"Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage."
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"Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society."
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"The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past."
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"In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
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"With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution."
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"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on."
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"No one makes a revolution by himself."
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"We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'"
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"Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."
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"I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest."
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"What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them."
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"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies."
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"In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence."
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"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
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"I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16."
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"The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs."
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"No revolution succeeds without sacrifice."
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