The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.