Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

- Paul Gauguin

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

- Cynthia Ozick

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

- Christopher Lasch

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

- Antonio Gramsci

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Soviet Union was a bad application and destructive and mistaken reading of Karl Marx.

- Adrienne Rich

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

- Adrienne Rich

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

- Huey Newton

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

- Frederick Douglass

I am not predicting the dawn of global democracy or global socialism. What I am predicting is an era of turmoil and uncertainty. Moreover, like all forms of power, interdependent power has a dark side, and it has always had a dark side. The hungry and diseased mobs who terrified the burghers of late-medieval Europe were not enlightenment thinkers, nor are the suicide bombers thrust forward by a resurgent Islam. Even the struggles of the Western Federation of Miners had a dark side, as they fought state and company violence with their own violence. Still, the defiant movements from the bottom that are fueled by interdependent power hold at least the hope that the needs and dreams of the great masses of the planet's people will make their imprint on the new societies for which we wish. Of course, the process of reform will be complicated and the outcomes shaped not only by interdependent power, but also by the complex institutional structures we inherit, cultural memory, and the concentrated power resources of aggrandizing elites. All that said, without the tempering influence of movements from below and the interdependent power they wield, our future is ominous.

- Frances Fox Piven

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- John F. Kennedy

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

- Howard Mumford Jones