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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.

Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.