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What Did They Say About Revolution?

"The limitations of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence rioting is not revolutionary, but reactionary, because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharthisfollowed by a sense of futility."

(Martin Luther King, Jr.-- 1929-1968; US Civil Rights leader who advocated nonviolent social change)

"The greatest changes to take place in the twenty-first century will not be of a scientific or technological nature, though these will be indeed great and very significant, but they will be of a social and behavioral nature. Social evolution has not kept pace with technological development."

(Bismark O. Delvillar -- Contributor Motivational speaker and sales trainer)

 "A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch."

(Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914; US journalist, satirist & author ) 

"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882; US Transcendentalist writer, minister & activist ) 

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

(John F. Kennedy 1917-1963; US 35th President, assassinated before end of first term)