Certain Quote by Angela Davis

The seed of revolution is repression.

— Woodrow Wilson

“There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come…

— Ernest Becker

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity…

— Holly Near

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it…

— Amor Towles

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and without the…

— Assata Shakur

I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the…

— Henry Giroux

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

— Victor Hugo

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the…

— John Lennon

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti