Revolutionary Quotes

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Radical or revolutionary consciousness . . . is the perception of oneself as unfree, as oppressed—and finally it is the discovery of oneself as one of the oppressed who must unite to transform the objective conditions of their existence in order to resolve the contradiction between potentiality and actuality. Revolutionary consciousness leads to the struggle for one’s own freedom in unity with others who share the burden of oppression.

~ Greg Calvert

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

~ Chris Kraus

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

~ Carl William Brown

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

~ George Washington

The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

~ Fred Hampton

He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus—those who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone—partly because he couldn’t bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn’t it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.

~ Friedrich Hecker

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

~ Christopher Hitchens

When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

~ Neal Asher

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

~ Daniel Delgado F

They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I was always challenging myself about what had led me there and about how strong my commitment really was.

~ Aleida March

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Prayers Are Free, But Change is going to cost you.

~ Prentiss Upmost Harris

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

~ Eric Weiner

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

~ John Carlos

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

~ Ma Jian

Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable of deploying in its struggle.

~ Rosa Luxemburg

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

~ Paulo Freire

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

~ Paulo Freire

What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

~ Richard Diaz

Nobody cares if I die for fighting Marathi breed.

~ Kjiva