"To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”"
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"I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution"
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"It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them."
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"To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball."
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"The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow."
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"The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings."
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"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."
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"The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm."
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"The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD."
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"It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death."
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"If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought."
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"The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment."
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
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"The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923."
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"If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage."
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"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
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"Exported revolution is nonsense."
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"Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution."
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"England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country."
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"Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation."
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