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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

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

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

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

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

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

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

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

—Czech slogan, 1989

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.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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