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  • Revolution is but thought carried into action.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria
  • I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press
  • Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

    Simple   Talking   Want  
  • In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

    Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.296, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

    Doors   Way   Revolution  
    Source: scottlondon.com
  • I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  • But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

    Beauty   People   Mind  
    "Gaudy Night".
  • Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

    Moving   Issues   People  
  • Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

    Power   Justice   Demand  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press
  • Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).

    Inspirational   Art   Law  
    "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". 1970.
  • If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

  • Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

  • Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

    Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

    Idols   Skulls   Progress  
    "The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

    Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
  • The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.20, AK Press
  • You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  • ...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratskiĭ (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895”
  • Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

  • Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

    Mean   Law   Parent  
    "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.
  • Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

    Dream   Jesus   Ideas  
  • Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

  • The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

  • We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

  • England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks
  • The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.

    Spiritual   Sex   War  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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