Revolutionary Quotes

“activism: (n.) opting for a lifestyle of getting off your ass.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the easy business of creating them. The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and the person who took care of the little being that crawled out of it. Parenting was a profession, and it was not Pei’s. She could not imagine living like Ouloo, performing two distinct jobs at once, splitting herself for decades until Tupo reached adulthood. The whole idea was overwhelming.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harder and rockier for Black people than for their white counterparts. Our teachers warned us that we would have to steel ourselves for hard labor and more hard labor, sacrifices and more sacrifices. Only this would prove that we were serious about overcoming all the obstacles before us. It often struck me they were speaking of these obstacles as if they would always be there, part of the natural order of things, rather than the product of a system of racism, which we could eventually overturn.”
― Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

“If you are being approached, called, selected or invited to join these group of people who are trying to destroying the country. They didn’t call you , because of your bravery or that your special, but they called you , because of your stupidity. They know you are foolish enough in believing any garbage they feed you. You are not smart enough to know what is right and what is wrong. Any bad idea, needs a fool to implement it. In this case you are that fool.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Every reformer is a public servant, but not every public servant is a reformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“I was to be a ham”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“. . . this book consciously centres stories of resistance and victory. Not because things are perfect, but because things are possible – through faith and struggle.”
― Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice

“I have been mocked and ridiculed my whole life, but know this, those who mock me today, their children will thank me tomorrow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Forward O People, Forward O Mind, no matter the pangs, never look behind!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“There is only one power that can save a country that an ignorant nation, a stupid opposition and a traitorous government have dragged into disaster together: A revolutionary idealist leader strong enough to drag that treacherous government, that stupid opposition and that ignorant nation like a giant flood!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Wake up from indifference and be the final solution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Flow through the nerves of society as electricity providing sentience, rush through the veins of society as blood providing energy, and work in the bones of society as calcium providing stability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“I am love, I am sanity, I am sacrifice, I am immortality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“I don't write on revolution, I am the revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Revolution is the foundation of civilization's evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Everybody fucks and leaves offspring, be the one to fight and leave a better society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“I have no desire to leave biological descendants, all I care about is to leave descendants who are related to me, not by blood, but by a common sense of responsibility towards the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Word of the somnolent masses is noise. Word of the reformer is rule, divine rule.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“You think I am the torch! I ain't - I am just the matchstick. Come - grab my hand - let me set you on fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“I am not just me, I am the voice of millions of my repressed sisters and brothers, who have been exploited, alienated and tyrannized by the entitled bullies of the world through centuries - whether I live long or not, so long as I live, I'll live for them - I'll live for them, I'll work for them, I'll die for them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“I have never been a good son, I'll never be a good partner, and definitely not a good parent, for I am a martyr - I am a martyr for humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“You’ll find a reformer in the dust of the street and the dirt of the soil, not in a large mansion surrounded by fancy cars and empty yesmen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“The way He met with death was itself a revolution, He fought for dignity and respect and made his way towards Martyrdom.
Shaheed Burhaan Wani”
― Zahid pandith

“Those who wish to change the status quo must first be willing to change themselves”
― Herman Ntladi

“I know in the present circumstances my faith in God would have made my life easier, my burden lighter, and my disbelief in Him has turned all the circumstances too dry, and the situation may assume too harsh a shape. A little bit of mysticism can make it poetical. But I do not want the help of any intoxication to meet my fate. I am a realist. I have been trying to overpower the instinct in me by the help of reason. I have not always been successful in achieving this end. But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”
― Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

“Seize the means of propaganda! Confiscate the central-planner’s ability to steer the collective as if it were livestock.”
― A.E. Samaan

“We are all of us Revolutionaries.”
― Rosaria Munda, Flamefall

“When he was alive, Marlon Riggs, activist, scholar, and filmmaker, used to insist in conversations with me and Essex [Hemphill] that “black men loving black men was the most revolutionary act.” To Marlon this statemen t was an affirmation of the importance of self-love. He believed that a self-hating individual black male, irrespective of his sexual preference, would never be able to love another black male. While I agree that anyone mired in self-hate cannot love anyone, I used to tell him that the “most revolutionary act” black men could make was to deal psychoanalytically with their childhoods.” For it is in childhood that so many black males, gay and straight, come to fear masculinity and manhood. This fear is often based on painful and abusive interaction between fathers and/or male parental caretakers and sons.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life

“A man who is afraid to die cannot be assigned the task to lead a nation that is willing to remain alive.”
― Kangoma Kindembo

“I think we differ as to where the root of the mischief lies. You place it in a lack of appreciation of the value of human life.”
“Rather of the sacredness of human personality.”
“Put it as you like. To me the great cause of our muddles and mistakes seems to lie in the mental disease called religion.”
“Do you mean any religion in particular?”
“Oh, no! That is a mere question of external symptoms. The disease itself is what is called a religious attitude of mind. It is the morbid desire to set up a fetish and adore it, to fall down and worship something. It makes little difference whether the something be Jesus or Buddha or a tum-tum tree. You don't agree with me, of course. You may be atheist or agnostic or anything you like, but I could feel the religious temperament in you at five yards.”
― E L Voynich