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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

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

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.

 

—Fidel Castro, 1959

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819

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

—Pope Leo XIII, 1885
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