If not us, who? If not now, when?

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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