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If not us, who? If not now, when?

—Czech slogan, 1989

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

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

—Leo Tolstoy, 1893

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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

—Henry Clay, 1842

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933
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