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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society."

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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms."

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H. G. Wells Writer
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"This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it."

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Jean Genet Playwright, Novelist
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
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"National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution."

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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."

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