Certain Quote by Joe Slovo

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed…

— Michel Foucault

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be…

— Ella Baker

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

— Vijay Prashad

“Constructive insurgency: Is the use of legal and imaginative means of resistance to reform a system of repression. Generally through the use of a…

— Anonymous

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

— Petra Kelly

“As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”

— Erik Larson

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that strikes…

— Joshua Clover

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base…

— T. E. Lawrence

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its…

— Bhagat Singh

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each…

— Jimmy Carter

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance…

— Kerry Kennedy