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revolutionist

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One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist. Jacques Maritain

As a revolutionist I can have no respect for capitalist property laws, nor the least scruple about violating them. I hold all such laws to have been enacted through chicanry, fraud and corruption, with the sole end in view of dispossessing, robbing and enslaving the working class. Eugene V. Debs

Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicism. There is not one who has more respect for life than a revolutionist. Abbie Hoffman

A revolutionist is born, not made. Benito Mussolini

...a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute... Mark Twain

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. Abbie Hoffman

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