Murray Head Quotes

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

You can't change the system through violence.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

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 in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

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.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

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

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.