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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

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

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

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