#revolution

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ↗

— Huey Newton

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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