Top 1200 Haitian Revolution Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.

We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. But I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw. For me, this revolution is very real.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.

I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.