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

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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