I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson MandelaMethods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert CamusWe pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson MandelaCuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel CastroWe got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Colin PowellWomen feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘
RihannaA political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
Che GuevaraIn a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
Nikola TeslaNever, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson MandelaPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice WalkerOf those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
BuddhaI will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel CastroA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel CastroA revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel CastroNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James BaldwinAbove all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Che GuevaraSo people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Madeleine AlbrightAny people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnI began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel CastroA revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon BonaparteEven in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
Fidel CastroYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey NewtonThe revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel CastroHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Fidel CastroWhat really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
BonoI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFrom behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. EisenhowerCastro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Richard M. NixonWhen the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi MinhMan is free at the moment he wishes to be.
VoltaireNever have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
Fidel CastroSurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliDigital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
George LucasInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
AristotleI liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye WestFour legs good, two legs bad.
George OrwellThe revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey NewtonNorth Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel CastroI’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John WayneAmerica is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. BushI was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del ReyPowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
David ByrneThe titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Nelson MandelaPower is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George OrwellThe worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl MarxI wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del ReyPassion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che GuevaraAmerican imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
Noam ChomskyMany things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
Fidel CastroThe sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya AngelouI don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
Taylor SwiftTo free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur SchopenhauerCuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
Fidel CastroI only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles DickensThe more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya AngelouOur Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
Fidel CastroEvery bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady GagaI’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo MachiavelliFor to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela