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
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
Revolution
There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom.
William Ellery Channing, The Union (1829)
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