Bourgeois Democratic Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words bourgeois, democratic and/or revolution:

    “Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    “You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.”
    —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)