Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

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

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

What is taking place in the Muslim world is an internal struggle. We are now living in the twilight of the Islamic reformation. It is inevitable. It may be slowed, but it cannot be stopped.

History is a relay of revolutions

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

Roger Williams... successfully vindicated the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, and effected a moral and political revolution in all governments of the civilized world.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

My role as an artist is not to make changes [in society] but to inspire changes.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

Whatever the cause, the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants. It was they whose faith gave them the courage to stand up for the Reformation, and but for them, the Reformation would have been lost..

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

These points of ours are going to rival Luther’s placard on the doors of Wittenberg!.

All religions undergo historical face lifts.

The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.

The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.

A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.