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“Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“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

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

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.”

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Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.”

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Author:June Jordan

“The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.”

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Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.”

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Author:Qiu Jin

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

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Author:Archibald MacLeish