~ Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
~ Samuel Adams
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
~ Bob Marley
The first duty of a man is to think for himself.~ Jose Marti
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.
~ Jim Morrison
If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.
~ Emma Goldman
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.
~ Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.
~ Malcolm X
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
~ Bob Dylan, Blowin' In The Wind
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for slave owners.
~ Vladimir Lenin
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ Adam Smith
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.
~ Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
~ Mao Tse-tung
~ Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied.
~ Fidel Castro
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own government, I can not be silent.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado
White lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat
The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live
~ Gil Scott-Heron
It’s been a long
A long time comin’, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh, yes it will
~ Sam Cooke
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
We've got to fight the powers that be
~ Public Enemy, Fight the Power
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