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So You Say You Want a Revolution?

So You Say You Want a Revolution?. Quotes FROM A Gift of Days: The Greatest Words to Live By Author: Stephen Alcorn Atheneum, New York 2009. So You Say You Want a Revolution? Quote 1. “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

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So You Say You Want a Revolution?

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  1. So You Say You Want a Revolution? Quotes FROM A Gift of Days: The Greatest Words to Live By Author: Stephen Alcorn Atheneum, New York 2009

  2. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 1 “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.” --James Madison (1751-1836) Former U.S. President

  3. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 2 “Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” --Jane Goodall (1934- ) anthropologist

  4. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 3 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with independent will.” --Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) author

  5. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 4 “I would rather die standing than live on my knees!” --Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) revolutionary

  6. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 5 “When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.” --Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) former U.S. President

  7. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 6 “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” --Mahatma Gandhi

  8. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 7 “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” --Desmond Tutu (1931- ) activist

  9. So You Say You Want a Revolution?Quote 8 “Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.” --William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) abolitionist

  10. So You Say You Want a RevolutionQuote 10 “We know the road to freedom has always been stalked with death.” --Angela Davis (1944- ) professor, social activist

  11. So You Say You Want a Revolution,Quote 11 “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” --Malcolm X (1925-1965) activist

  12. So You Say You Want a RevolutionQuote 12 “I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.” --Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) painter

  13. So You Say You Want a RevolutionQuote 13 “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” --Lord Acton

  14. So You Say You Want a RevolutionQuote 14 “Language is a tool and a weapon.” --Judith Ortiz Cofer, famous writer (This may explain why in times of revolution writers are always the first to be rounded up and imprisoned.)

  15. So You Say You Want a RevolutionQuote 15 “The pen is mightier than the sword.” --Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English playwright

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