“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.”
In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution).
Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)
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“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
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number9dream (2001)
“There’s just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that’s a police revolution.”
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 15.
“All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity.”
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The right of revolution is an inherent one.”
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 16.
Context: The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable. But any people or part of a people who resort to this remedy, stake their lives, their property, and every claim for protection given by citizenship — on the issue. Victory, or the conditions imposed by the conqueror — must be the result.
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us