Audre Lorde Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

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

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Revolution begins with one step

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Social change comes through people.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Revolutions never go backward.

I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we're moving forward; we're evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.