Directions: Examine Each of the Quotes Below and Try to Define the THEME of the Quote

Directions: Examine each of the quotes below and try to define the THEME of the quote.

What is this person’s idea of # Quote “revolution” like? “Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, 1 respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. A revolution is an insurrection [uprising], an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” -Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it drop." 2 -Che Guevara, Cuban Communist Revolution leader

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets." [Bayonets - short knives 3 attached to the ends of rifles] -Napoleon Bonaparte, French military commander and leader

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” 4 -Aristotle, Greek philosopher

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution 5 inevitable.” -John F. Kennedy, the last American President to be assassinated

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” 6 - Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify 7 revolution.” -Abraham Lincoln, American President during the Civil War and the first American President to be assassinated “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We 8 need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” -Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist leader and former slave

“Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize 9 what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.” -Victor Hugo. Author of Les Miserables, a novel set during the French Revolution “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the 10 unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw, Irish author

All of the quotes above are about one topic: REVOLUTION! Using the quotes above, now create your own definition for revolution in the space below. Try to hit on as many of the key ideas that the quotes demonstrate as you can.