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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

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

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

—Thomas Paine, 1778

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933
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