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It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

— Elian Gonzalez

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

— Jane Fonda

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

— Richard Stallman

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

— Charles A. Beard

The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.

— Sukarno

In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.

— Stanley Hauerwas

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

— Harold H. Greene

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

— Philip K. Dick

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

— Alexis Arguello

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

— Raoul Vaneigem