It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCEvery revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885All 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.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989