Nelson Mandela Quotes

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

You can't build a new society by violating the rights of others.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.