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settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual
- Charles Dickens
On the steps of a church, awaiting the coming-up of the tumbrils, stands the Spy and prison-sheep. He looks into the first of them: not there. He looks into the second: not there. He already asks himself, "Has he sacrificed me?" when his face clears, as he looks into the third. "Which is Evremonde?" says a man behind
- Charles Dickens
set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical
- Charles Dickens
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
- John Lennon
Women are powerful and dangerous.
- Audre Lorde
The world needs a revolution led by women.
- Desmond Tutu
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
- Thomas Paine
Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with France. Their effects are felt, and their influence already extends as well to the old world as the new. Our style and manner of thinking have undergone a revolution, more extraordinary than the political revolution of the country. We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears; and think with other thoughts, than those we formerly used.
- Thomas Paine
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
- Thomas Paine
Monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes.
- Thomas Paine
It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.
- Thomas Paine