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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

—George Sand, 1851

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

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

—Czech slogan, 1989

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

—François Guizot, 1830

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

—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819
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