“The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.” PhilosophyFactsRevolutionBattleAmerican Revolution Author:Robert Trout
“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.” MenNeedsHumansSpeakGenerationsRevolutionBattleConversationLibraryCategoriesPakistanLaboratoryMy GenerationJavaBolivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.” TodayFightingRevolutionBattleAliensInvasionAlien Invasion Author:Steven Moffat
“The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.” PeopleWorldMindDoeMatterHandsAmericaStruggleMastersRevolutionBattleFortuneStriveWideLatinExploitationOppressedAsiaLinkedImperialismLatin AmericaOppressorsSuppressionGhana Author:Kwame Nkrumah
“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” YearsTwoHomeSpiritualNightLostCausesWhiteWalksLandAdventureRevolutionReturnCivilizationBattleTenUltimateTrainWestFinalsAestheticDay And NightExtremistAtlantaHitchhikingRamblingUltimate FreedomGreatest Adventure Author:Christopher McCandless
“Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.” MayGrowsCausesNaturalCasesMankindEffectsEventsRevolutionBattleJudgmentChecksMysteriousFormerUsualObscureInclinationFamineIntervalsPropensityMarvellousOraclesOmenProdigiesPestilence Author:David Hume
“Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.” RevolutionBattleFindingsDevil Author:Shane Claiborne
“There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.” WarLostForceCasesExampleRevolutionBattleArmyBritishOccupationAmerican RevolutionGuerrillas Author:Noam Chomsky
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.” SometimesAbleRevolutionBattleStandingBlessedArena Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!” IfsMayWarEnoughDesireStrongPresidentHeardRevolutionBattleLateElectionSlaveryBraveActiveChainsInevitableRepeatsToo LateRetiringRetreatContestsSubmissionBostonAmerican RevolutionVigilantForged Author:Patrick Henry
“Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.” PeopleCountryFightingThreeForceNationsCausesLibertyEnemyDestinyMillionsRevolutionHolyBattleRaisesInvincibleAmerican RevolutionRaise Up Author:Patrick Henry