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"By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary." »Jerry Rubin
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"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." »Albert Einstein
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic." »Albert Camus
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." »Hannah Arendt
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"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man." »David Harris
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters." »Paul Gauguin
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"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power." »Jane Fonda
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm
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"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." »George Orwell
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." »George Orwell
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"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." »George C. Marshall
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"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." »Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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"If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite" »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell
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