Revolutionaries

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by AristophanesGreat Grandfather of Comedy, A...

from Lysistrata

Ah, ha, you thought it was a herd of slaves You had to tackle, and you didn't guess The thirst for glory ardent in our blood.

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by William J. DuikerUnited States Foreign Service ...

from Ho Chi Minh

Revolutions are not waged without revolutionaries. (From: Chapter 10: The Days of August, Page 344..)

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by L'Aurora EditorsEarly 20th-Century, Italian An...

from Fired by the Ideal

It is to others, the ones who learn to hate as they proceed along the thorny path of a life made up of hardships and bitterness; the ones who steal a little time from their sleep in order to learn to read and write, enough to review the debts you owe them, who will not forget Leon Czolgosz's act. (From: Section 10: The Tragedy is Over, from L'Aurora, No....)

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by Arthur H. LandisJournalist, Veteran, Scout, an...

from Abraham Lincoln Brigade

For all men, in truth, should answer only to how they have lived within their milieu and how they have faced up to the social crises of their times. (From: Chapter 2, Section 1: Background, Page 103..)

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by Louis Nathaniel RosselFrench Army Officer, Politicia...

from Fall of Paris

I did not know where the insurgents were, but I knew against whom they were rebelling and that was sufficient. (From: Chapter 22: Return of the Jacobins, Page 328..)

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by Margaret SangerAmerican Birth Control Activis...

from Hotel Brevoort Speech

...as I become more and more conscious of the vital importance of this idea, I felt myself in the position of one who has discovered that a house is on fire; and I found that it was up to me to shout out the warning! The tone of the voice may have been indelicate and unladylike, and was not at all the tone than many of us would rather hear.

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by Max StirnerFather Anarchist-Egoism, Anarc...

from The Ego and Its Own

We are all ragamuffins together, and as the aggregate of Communistic society we might call ourselves a "ragamuffin crew." (From: Part 1, Chapter II, Section 3, Sub-Section 2..)

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by Max StirnerFather Anarchist-Egoism, Anarc...

from The Ego and Its Own

In a gathering of revolutionists the police force their way in and ask the orator for his name; everybody knows that the police have the right to do so, but they do not have it from the revolutionist, since he is their enemy; he tells them a false name and -- cheats them with a lie. (From: Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2..)

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by Henry David ThoreauAmerican Naturalist, Essayist,...

from A Plea for Capt. John Brown

...when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

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by Henry David ThoreauAmerican Naturalist, Essayist,...

from Slavery in Massachusetts

...there are some, who, if they were tied to a whipping-post, and could but get one hand free, would use it to ring the bells and fire the cannons, to celebrate their liberty.

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by Leo TolstoyRussian Writer, Novelisst, Veg...

from A Letter to Russian Liberals

There are people (we ourselves are such) who realize that our Government is very bad, and who struggle against it.

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by Auguste VaillantFrench Anarchist, Bomber of th...

from The Psychology of Political Violence

Among the exploited, gentlemen, there are two classes of individuals. Those of one class, not realizing what they are and what they might be, take life as it comes, believe that they are born to be slaves, and content themselves with the little that is given them in exchange for their labor. But there are others, on the contrary, who think, who study, and who, looking about them, discover social iniquities. Is it their fault if they see clearly and suffer at seeing others suffer? Then they throw themselves into the struggle, and make themselves the bearers of the popular claims.

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by John F. WitteProfessor of Political Science...

from Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work

...we should remember that the characteristics of activists are very different from the characteristics of those most likely to profess a belief in the idea of worker participation. (From: Chapter 4: The Activists, Page 53..)

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by Eric Robert WolfAnthropologist, best Known for...

from Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Lay the two aspects of Russian rural life side by side: the peasant who has the restlessness of the nomad in his blood, and the police-state which enforces upon him the static obligations of the serf status: the urge to be up and moving on the one hand, and the passport and the pursuing authority on the other: and you have the key to some of the contradictions of Russian history. (From: Chapter 2: Russia, Page 52..)

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