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Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

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.

—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BC

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

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

—Thomas Paine, 1778

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

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

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

—Henry Clay, 1842

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC

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

—Czech slogan, 1989

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

—Havelock Ellis, 1921
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