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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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.

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. 

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.