Randall Terry Quotes

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

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.

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

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

The National Revolution has begun.

One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.

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

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

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

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

The revolution is on the verge of winning. We cannot crush it but perhaps we can strangle it …. Perhaps it will be possible to divert the revolutionary energies into the legal channels of an election campaign.