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“Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.”

“I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.”

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Author:Federica Montseny

“If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.”

“...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895

“Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.”

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Author:Leonard Bernstein

“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.”

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Book:Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

Source: Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries

“England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.”

“There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”

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Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming.”

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Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”

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Book:Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

“I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.”

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Author:Nick Clooney

“Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.”

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Author:Johann Most

“Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.”

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Author:Faye Wattleton

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