“It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.” PoliticalInterestingRightsMovementRevolutionBecomingExcitingJazzCivil RightsArtisticEstablishmentCivil Rights MovementCivil Right Movement Author:Archie Shepp
“I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.” ThinkingWantKindDoeWisdomPoliticsStuffSecretTalkingEconomyRevolutionWoodsLiberalismEstablishmentBerries Author:Louis O. Kelso
“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.” HumansHas BeensTwoFactsRunningClassCenturyEventsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalChinaRussiaCommunistEstablishmentWorking ClassHuman HistoryTwentieth CenturyHistorical Events Author:Grover Furr
“In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words.” WellsIdeasChallengesCareersWillingRevolutionIntellectualDeedsProfessionReputationEstablishment Author:Jude Wanniski
“My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.” HappensWinningRevolutionClintonEstablishmentCynicalSupporterDisgusted Author:Kevin Drum
“People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.” PeopleWayTryingSaidEnoughCareForceStuffAnswersTechnologyFiguresRevolutionInternetDawnDamageEstablishmentCensorshipRoutesThey SaidScrewsNaiveAdvancingComplacentInternet Revolution Author:Paul Saffo
“The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.” WayMadeStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesRichPositionRevolutionPaperConstitutionIndianEstablishmentInferiorsColonyExclusionSupremacyConstitution Of The United States Book:A People's History of the United States Source: A People's History of the United States
“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.” MenFirstsMayReasonMomentsHappensTruthMoralOpinionPrinciplesRevolutionFinalsObviousConvictionConvincedExpectedEvery ManEstablishmentMoral Principles Book:Dissertation on First-principles of Government Source: Dissertation on First-principles of Government