"When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery."

"When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil."

"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

"Writing well is the best revenge."

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

"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!"

"I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler."

"We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice."

"There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart..."

"We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together."

"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen revolution inevitable."

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

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext."

"In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them"

"Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets"

People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”