Bryant H. McGill Quotes

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!'

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

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.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

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

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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

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

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Bloodshed and disorder are not necessarily evil in themselves, if resorted to in a noble cause.