"Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people."

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Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.114, Fahamu/Pambazuka

Walter Rodney

#People Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Dramatic Quotes

“Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.”
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.”
“I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.”
“I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.”
“The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (2017). “God of the Machine”, p.323, Routledge
“We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.”
“I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.”
“I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.”

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