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

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

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.

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.

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

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.