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

—Henry Clay, 1842

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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