Berlin, Germany

Hate and Revolution

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.berlin.bard.edu
Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in political power and political organization, which occurs relatively quickly when the population revolt against their oppression (political, social, economic) by the incumbent government. In book V of the Politics, the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC) described two types of political revolution:
Revolution
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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948
Revolution
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William H. Seward, speech on the "Irrepressible Conflict" (October 1858)
Revolution
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay, Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory
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