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“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.”

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Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.”

Justice Risk Danger Revolution Solutions Noise Anarchy

Author:Jonathan Larson

“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.”

Reason Government Justice Principles Revolution Eternal Glory Tyranny Righteous Boast Enmity

Author:John Hancock

“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”

Government Justice Virtue Revolution Terror Attributes Severe Prompts

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”

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Author:Judah P. Benjamin

“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.”

“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.”

Justice Land Revolution Bases Independence Equality And Justice

Author:Malcolm X

“We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.”

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Book:Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

Source: Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

“If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.”

People Ifs Believe Justice Revolution Succeed Destroying Cuban Creeks

Author:Assata Shakur

“The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.”

Art Shows Order Justice Revolution Authority Customs Subversion Probing

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.”

Men Humans Desire Passion Force Justice Awareness Possibility Revolution Despair Expectations Oppression Touched Submission Without Hope Resigned

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.”

Social Justice Revolution Dignity Social Justice Slogans

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.”

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Book:The Law

Source: The Law