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"And if you fashion it [the revolution] with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves

— Sékou Touré

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We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.

Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.

Every free and sovereign people finds itself placed in conditions more favourable to the expression of its cultural values than a colonized country...

The revolution is not a matter of a single day, nor is it the task of one man; it is a permanent creation

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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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