So You Say You Want a Revolution?

Quotes FROM A Gift of Days:

The Greatest Words to Live By

Author: Stephen AlcornAtheneum, 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.”

--James Madison (1751-1836) Former U.S. President

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

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

So You Say You Want a Revolution?

Quote 4

“I would rather die standing than live on my knees!”

--Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) revolutionary

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

So You Say You Want a Revolution?

Quote 6

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

--Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

So You Say You Want a Revolution,Quote 11

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”

--Malcolm X (1925-1965) activist

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

So You Say You Want a Revolution

Quote 13

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

--Lord Acton

So You Say You Want a Revolution

Quote 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.)

So You Say You Want a Revolution

Quote 15

“The pen is mightier than the sword.”

--Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English playwright