B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

A party as such, in the course of the development of a revolution, becomes identical with the revolution.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day — in some unknown serra — some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.