The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.