Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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