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

—Erich Fromm, 1941

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

—Germaine Greer, 1970

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

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

—Thomas Paine, 1778

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864
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