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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Australian
Activist
Born:
Jan 29
,
1939
Topics
Revolution
,
Oppressed
,
Festival
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Nation
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Would
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Well
Well Enough
Understand
Did
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George Orwell
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Safeguard
Makes
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Establish
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Means
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Karl Marx
World
Win
Lose
Revolution
Nothing
Tremble
Ruling
Classes
Countries
Communist
Chains
Unite
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Robert Kennedy
Life
History
Struggle
People
Better
Independence
Revolution
Our
Nurtured
Way
States
Those
Born
Seek
Throughout
Better Way
Supported
American
American People
Who
United
United States
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Victor Hugo
Dictatorship
Revolution
Fact
Becomes
Right
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
Change
Constitution
Enemy
Tyranny
Free
Free Speech
Revolution
Framers
Knew
Also
Deadliest
Always
Friend
Speech
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Dictatorship
Revolution
Safeguard
Makes
Does
Establish
Order
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
Revolution
Every
Slime
Only
New
Leaves
Bureaucracy
Behind
Evaporates
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
Knowledge
You
Change
Experience
Yourself
Revolution
Must
Eating
Direct
Direct Experience
Take
Part
Know
Genuine
Methods
Taste
Want
Theory
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman
Politics
Change
Thought
Revolution
Action
Carried
Brought
About
Without
Real
Been
Social
Social Change
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