“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.” PeopleMindFirstsBelieveMayMeanSometimesUsedGoalResultsStudyRevolutionProgramMethodCarefulObjectivesMotiveCharacteristicsConsiderationHistoricChanging Your Mind Author:Malcolm X
“You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.” ThinkingMeanTodaySocialGoalHoursStepsPathRevolutionTomorrowMiseryJustifyProvenEvery StepInhumanInhumanityUnattainableSocial RevolutionAfter Hours Author:Wilhelm Reich
“We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.” WayFirstsFeelingsGoalHurtMovementRevolutionExpectationsAccomplishExpectedAbsurdLiberation Author:Mary Blakely
“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.” WantHumansWarFactsBigsGovernmentFacesSpiritualValuesSocialSexGoalRightsMiddleRevolutionMajorityCivil RightsOppositionBrotherhoodSweepingFacetsUpheavalSocial RevolutionSpiritual Values Author:Johnny Carson