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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. -- James Lee Burke
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. -- Harold H. Greene
I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution. -- Vivienne Westwood
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. -- Vladimir Lenin
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. -- Philip Yancey
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. -- Thomas Carlyle
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution. -- Hugo Chavez
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution. -- Gore Vidal
Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible. -- Adam Kokesh
Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another. -- Thomas Merton
I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase. -- Erskine Caldwell
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power? -- Al Gore
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. -- Petra Kelly
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity. -- William James
All revolutions are violent revolutions. -- Paul Watson
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. -- Malcolm X
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962] -- John F. Kennedy
I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up, -- Larry Klayman
A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. -- Nick Clooney
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art. -- Octavio Paz
To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. -- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. -- Ambrose Bierce
Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. -- Wyndham Lewis
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. -- Leo Tolstoy
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. -- T. S. Eliot
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical. -- Muhammad Ali
He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror. -- Joseph Farah
Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent. -- Michael Hardt
Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact. -- Walter Wink

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