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

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.

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.