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Revolutionary Quotes - Page 3

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

"The Bad Old Days Will End" by Guy Debord (November 1963); later quoted in "The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International" edited by Christopher Gray, 1974.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.113

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.100, Northwestern University Press

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

"Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2015). “Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013: Travel Journals 1950–2013”, p.311, W. W. Norton & Company

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

Myles Horton (2003). “The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change”, p.122, Univ. of Tennessee Press

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

"Ethiopia, the United States and the Soviet Union". Book by David A. Korn, 1986.