“Reconstruction should be considered as a "bourgeois revolution."”
Allen C. Guelzo (1953) American historian
2010s, Interview with Sara Gabbard (2018)
18 November 2008, According to Archived copy, 2015-07-06, yes, https://archive.is/20120908203416/http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, 8 September 2012, dmy-all http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, <br class="br">Interview to CNN, Revolution
“Reconstruction should be considered as a "bourgeois revolution."”
Allen C. Guelzo (1953) American historian
2010s, Interview with Sara Gabbard (2018)
Louis Farrakhan (1933) leader of the Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the "Nation of Islam", Declares His Support of Iran's Nuclear Program and Claims that Since the U.S. Administration Ignored His Warnings, "the Time for the Chastisement of Allah Is Here" http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1407 (March 2007)
“Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!”
James Boswell (1740–1795) Scottish lawyer, diarist and author
1 September 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
James Thurber book My Life and Hard Times
My Life and Hard Times (1933) page 33, Harper & Row, New York.
From other writings
Shirin Ebadi (1947) Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
From 1999 interview. <br class="br"> Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La meritocrazia è un concetto che dovrebbe esistere in ogni luogo di lavoro. Purtroppo, a volte l'incapacità di un dirigente arriva a tal punto da non considerare un valore così essenziale per lo sviluppo ed il futuro di un'intera generazione di talenti.
Source: prevale.net
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
As quoted in With Fidel : A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1976) by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, p. 83
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) edited by Mick Farren, p. 138
Variant: The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.