Violent Revolution Quotes
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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power (Violent Revolution Quotes)
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. (Violent Revolution Quotes)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962] (Violent Revolution Quotes)
It’s impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical. (Violent Revolution Quotes)
To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training (Violent Revolution Quotes)
He wasn’t someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror (Violent Revolution Quotes)
I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power? (Violent Revolution Quotes)
Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won’t let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won’t have to be violent (Violent Revolution Quotes)
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another (Violent Revolution Quotes)
You don’t have a peaceful revolution. You don’t have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There’s no such thing as a nonviolent revolution (Violent Revolution Quotes)
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity (Violent Revolution Quotes)
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren’t as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don’t resort to violent revolution (Violent Revolution Quotes)
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary (Violent Revolution Quotes)
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals (Violent Revolution Quotes)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable (Violent Revolution Quotes)
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale (Violent Revolution Quotes)
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people (Violent Revolution Quotes)
Buddhism... Is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or loyal opposition to the culture in which it is involved (Violent Revolution Quotes)
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution (Violent Revolution Quotes)
I’m not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution (Violent Revolution Quotes)
I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don’t think there’s going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase (Violent Revolution Quotes)
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution (Violent Revolution Quotes)