Lester R. Brown Quotes

I will collect my people and we will fight in the open, and if we cannot win there, we will go underground.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Mass action culminates in armed insurrection and civil war.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

In a democracy, when you have 20 million people in the street, you resign. Unfortunately, we don’t have a process of recall or impeachment as you have. It was a popular uprising rejecting Mr. Morsi’s continuing in power. Unfortunately, people had to call on the army to intervene. The army had to intervene because short of that, we would have ended up in a civil war.

Some civil wars are caused by one group within a country seeking its independence, while in other cases, the civil war itself leads one group or another to seek its independence as the solution to its problems.

Rebellions broke out, from the full-scale political revolution of Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island to urban violence and protest, often by out of work whites taking out their anger on African Americans or Irish Americans. In response, leaders had to come to terms with the role of force in a democracy.

My father believed in armed struggle.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.