“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The American Revolution was not a common event.”
1810s, What do we mean by the American Revolution? (1818)
Context: The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to cease?
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. … This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
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“In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.”
Bernard Bailyn book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302.
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
How to Think about the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration https://books.google.com/books?id=iKGGAAAAMAAJ (1978) p. 53 <br class="br">Also quoted in Vindicating the Founders https://books.google.com/books?id=DjlpSl-x1gMC, by Thomas G. West, p. 32 <br class="br">1970s
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Referring to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“But what do we mean by the American Revolution?”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1810s, What do we mean by the American Revolution? (1818)
Context: The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to cease?
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. … This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (November 2003)
Mike Godwin (1956) American attorney and author
On conclusion of case Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union — cited in [Goldsmith, Jack L., Tim Wu, 2006, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World, Oxford University Press, 22, 0195152662]
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“On the Spirit of America” http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122, Address to Daughters of the American Revoltion (11 October 1915) <br class="br">1910s
“The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 35
Aleksandr Dugin (1962) Russian political scientist
Aleksandr Dugin — The Basics of Geopolitics (1997)