James Connolly Quotes

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

I'm a radical, and I always have been.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

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

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

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.

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.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws