#overthrow

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bringing #contra #economic justice #government #had

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#become #frozen #longer #overthrow #revolution

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#congress #constitution #courts #masters #men

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#again #apologize #bush #bush administration #clean

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#life #monarchy #my life #overthrow

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#down #experts #fall #kings #overthrown

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. ↗

— John Blair

#capitalism #communities #enough #ever #fool

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#great mind #mind #only #overthrown #tragedy