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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."

Toni Cade Bambara, American Author

Revolution, Job, Writer

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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."

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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

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"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."

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"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."

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