A Revolution is Starting NOW

[Nanjeanne]

In the words of Robert Kennedy

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We've got your back, Senator Sanders. Let The Revolution Start NOW.

[pinebox]

1. #NotMeUs is trending #1 on Twitter right now

Guess what that's about? https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotMeUs?src=tren

[Nanjeanne]

2. Love it. nt

[Live and Learn]

6. +10,000 nt

[cantbeserious]

24. Thank You For Sharing These Truths

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[Rockyj]

26. Me thinks Bernie has started a true POLITICAL REVOLUTION!

Me thinks Bernie has started a true POLITICAL REVOLUTION!

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[senz]

27. I love that.

[villager]

3. Of course, we've seen repeatedly how the other side deals with "peaceful revolutionaries..."

...and what they did to both Kennedys, to MLK, etc., etc...

In other words, they're not going to release the clutches of society from their necrotic, suffocating hands easily...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. If that happens to Bernie, he will be this revolution's martyr and it will set this current spark...

...into a raging revolutionary inferno.

[jwirr]

14. Totally agree. I think that is why President Obama has also

been left alone. We are holding the flint - they can decide if they are the match. But this revolution in coming and there is nothing they can do about it.

[senz]

28. Just realized how much I would miss him if it did happen.

Would love to thank him in person someday.

[ablamj]

65. Exactly

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

[LiberalArkie]

4. Thank you..

[99th_Monkey]

5. Love it! Here's another Bobby quote that feels so very relevant in 2016

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"“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”"
~Bobby Kennedy

[oberliner]

41. Bobbly Kennedy?

Incidentally, that quote comes from a speech about South Africa.

[99th_Monkey]

49. It's also a quote from the book that he wrote, right before his campaign. "To Seek a Newer World".

I had it underlined, carried it around to show to people, when I worked on his
campaign. The SDS people loved it, and many were swayed by it to support
him. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976848.To_Seek_a_Newer_World

[oberliner]

60. Very cool

Now if only the various corners of the internet where his quotes are published can spell his name correctly!

[democrank]

8. This standing up business is the key.

No matter how much they threaten you for it, or hate you for it, or laugh at you for it. Just stand up....proudly....and be counted. It`s we, the people, not we, the oligarchs.

[paleotn]

9. I saw RFK once....

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1968. I was 5 years old.

[dpatbrown]

19. I saw him speak in Sacramento,

two weeks before he was killed in L.A. I was a college student then, and I loved the man. I've been waiting all this time for someone like him. Oh, and by the way, Sanders is much more progressive than Bobby was, but like Sanders, he was REAL.

Great quote.

[Empowerer]

46. But if he were running now, he'd be smeared on DU as a corporatist tool because in the 1950s

he was cozy with Joe McCarthy and as Attorney General, he was instrumental in the nomination of racist judges and urged civil rights activists to stand down - and, as we know, no one can ever evolve and grow . . .

[Plucketeer]

10. Sit back and watch

or take an active role. If you choose to take part, leave your guns in the safe and bring your brains instead.

[tecelote]

11. This revolution will be televised.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. KnR

[Hiraeth]

13. prophetic

[jwirr]

15. Thank you. I wonder what he was talking about back then?

It still fits but I wonder if he had this in mind?

[senz]

29. In the late 60s there was much talk of revolution

among young people, college students, the counterculture. Bobby was probably well aware of it, and he might have phrased it that way to deflect from ideas of violent revolution that were floating around.

[jwirr]

38. I suppose, like today most of us back then were trying to keep

things peaceful. It is amazing that his words fit so well today.

[senz]

40. Yes. What's sad about that

is that the "revolution" never happened. Things got worse, instead. Maybe they wouldn't have, if Bobby Kennedy had lived and won the election.

Which is another reason why I worry about Bernie.

[jwirr]

50. +1

[oberliner]

54. The revolution he was talking about did happen

He gave this speech in Peru to a group of students there - and pretty much everything he said would come to pass in South America, did.

[senz]

59. Ah, thanks. Context makes a big difference.

Appreciate it.

[oberliner]

42. He was talking about land reform in Latin America

Taking these quotes out of their full context distorts their true meaning.

[jwirr]

51. I remember reading that in one of his books - can't remember

which. He was basically talking about land ownership just as today we talk about wealth inequality. I think at the time in Mexico 14% of the people owned all of the land.

[Le Taz Hot]

52. Universal truths can't be taken out of context . . . they're universal truths.

[Karma13612]

16. This campaign is starting to look pretty darn good. +10

[scottie55]

17. I Only Wish I Could Go To Iowa And Help Out Bernie

Can't leave work.

[azmom]

18. Viva la revolucion

[kristopher]

20. Those liberal elites and all their high tone words...

The sentiments are spot on, but I like the current rephrasing:

Bernie Sanders: Because Fuck this Shit.

[JimDandy]

21. No. This time we have EACH OTHERS backs.

All of us together, Sander's yours and mine. THAT's a revolution!

[Iggy Knorr]

22. Kick

[Kokonoe]

23. OK

[cascadiance]

25. Steve Earle, Occupy Wall Street, and the Majority Report echo that message today NOW!

[senz]

30. In news coverage of OWS, they showed Wall Streeters watching

from high-up windows, laughing and smirking at the rabble below. Might have been some of Hill's friends.

Thanks for the song; haven't heard it for a long time.

[senz]

31. I had a dream about him the night after he died.

Very vivid, real. Stays with me.

[Gregorian]

32. We'll do that right after Hillary gets out of our way.

[uponit7771]

33. Except in the category of reparations, this "revolution" needs to have asterisks

[Nanjeanne]

34. Well in that case he stands with Obama and Clinton - but

We are still going to get the Revolution started anyway.

[uponit7771]

35. Neither of them are claiming revolution and the revolution should start with an asterisks by

... it seeing the revolution is going to avoid certain tenants of the left.

bottom line, either its a revolution were everything is on the table or its not and other groups have to miss out on the revolution in part

[Nanjeanne]

36. So you define Revolution as being for reparations. OK.

[uponit7771]

37. No, just that certain groups revolutions shouldn't be left out of the whole and then claim

... all is good.

That's not fair at all

Reparations should be part of the revolution whole in this case

[oberliner]

39. That quote is from a speech about land reform in Latin America

It's about encouraging Central and South American countries to move away from a subsistence farming model.

He was not talking about a revolution in the United States.

[bigtree]

43. that's a point which is really lost in the repeated posting of those quotes

...in support of the Sanders campaign.

My question would be, why wouldn't the Sanders camp's aspirations and expectations be for a 'peaceful revolution' in our democracy?

[oberliner]

55. Yes, indeed

It is frustrating.

People who really want to understand what this quote is about ought to read the full speech.

[Nanjeanne]

45. So we can only use this if we talk about moving away from a subsistence farming model?

We aren't allowed to take the sentiment and apply is to our lives now?

Wow. I love quotes from many many people that inspire me in my life. I didn't realize we had to only use them in the exact same context as the person who said it.

I've liked this quote from Harry Potter: “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” Now I know I can only use it in Hogwarts.


How silly.

[oberliner]

53. The context is helpful in understand what he was communicating

He was certainly not talking about a revolution in the United States.

[Nanjeanne]

56. Not to me

The quote is inspiring for what I see in it. Sort of like looking at a painting and it evoking a feeling. But to each it's own.

[oberliner]

57. That's a good point

I've had this argument a lot about literature as well - where someone will say that a book means something to them while the author will say that is not at all what they meant to communicate. Is the author's intention even relevant? It's an interesting conversation.

[Empowerer]

44. That's what we keep hearing . . .

[liberal_at_heart]

47. K&R

[AzDar]

48. They aren't going to know what hit them...

But they are going to Feel The Bern!!

[avaistheone1]

58. K&R

Excellent thread.

[SoapBox]

61. Yes!

Go Bernie!

[Uncle Joe]

62. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Nanjeanne.

[tarheelsunc]

63. Aren't the Kennedys a little too "establishment" for their quotes to apply to Bernie? eom

[Nanjeanne]

64. Well isn't that silly? nt