Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

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

All 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.