Clarence Thomas Quotes

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

An oppressed people will always rise.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

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

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.