Events Quote by Leon Trotsky

“Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status”

— Robert Trivers

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

— Richard Russo

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so…

— Saul Alinsky

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

— George Bernard Shaw

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through…

— Emma Goldman

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

— Johan Huizinga

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

— C. L. R. James

“From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which…

— Anne McClintock

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

“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in…

— Emma Goldman