From <a href="https://laphamsquarterly.substack.com/p/extracts-fc4" author="Grace Andreasen" source="Lapham's Quarterly">Extracts: On Revolutions</a>, <div style="display: grid; grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr; gap: 1em"><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="henry_clay.webp" align="none" caption="Henry Clay"><bq author="Henry Clay" date="1842">An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.</bq></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="mikhail_bakunin.webp" align="none" caption="Mikhail Bakunin"><bq date="1871" author="Mikhail Bakunin">To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.</bq></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="leo_tolstoy.webp" align="none" caption="Leo Tolstoy"><bq author="Leo Tolstoy" date="1893">Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.</bq></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="george_bernard_shaw.webp" align="none" caption="George Bernard Shaw"><bq author="George Bernard Shaw" date="1903">Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.</bq></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="dolores_iba_rruri.webp" align="none" caption="Dolores Ibárruri"><bq author="Dolores Ibárruri" date="1936">It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.</bq></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column"><img attachment="hannah_arendt.webp" align="none" caption="Hannah Arendt"><bq author="Hannah Arendt" date="1970">The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.</bq></div></div>