Joe Slovo Quotes

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

Right now, I am trying to overthrow the Government of the United States.

Coups usually follow national humiliation.

The social discontent in China today is massive

The commotions in Ireland were so sudden and so violent that it was hard at first either to discern the cause or apply a remedy to that precipitate rebellion.

While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing one of the best armies in the world, without appreciating their freedom to move!

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.