Revolution is not a picnic, not a drawing, not an essay, not a painting, not a carving, not an embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— Sun Yat-sen Modern

Father of modern China

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Misattributed quote, often attributed to Mao Zedong. Sun Yat-sen did advocate for revolutionary violence but not in these exact words. This exact phrasing is from Mao's 'Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan'.

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N/A (often misattributed)

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Controversial

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.h…

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Found in 1 providers: grok

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