Revolutionary Quotes
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.
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It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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Optimism is a revolutionary act
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Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."
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I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that I respect in the business as being truly revolutionary.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
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There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.
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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
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Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
