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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

— Eugene V. Debs

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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)

Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.

Federal Court statement (1918)

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Walls and Bars (1927)

The working class must be emancipated by the working class.

The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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