Revolution Quotes
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."
"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."
"Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword."
"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it."
"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
"A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.[Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]"
"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
"Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness."
"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
"The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?"
"A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her."
"Don't die without fulfilling your purpose."
"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"
"Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions."
"Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms."
"God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon."
"Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say."
"Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name."
"An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily."
"An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud."
"Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well."
"Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore."
"When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us."
"Dominate in your domain; You can do it."
"This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them."
"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."
"You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination."
"You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth."
"Patience is a virtue not a vice."
"Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!"
"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
"Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man."
"When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown."
"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."
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