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John Adams: As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4199


Muhammad Ali: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10, 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4200


Vaclav Havel: Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4201


Martin Luther King, Jr.: We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4202


Edward R. Murrow: We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4203



Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4204



Camus: The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4206








Harriet Tubman: I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4212




Fidel Castro: A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4214


















Karl Marx: Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4227