Be the Revolution

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Shevek The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Context: Shevek addresses a crowd of striking workers during a political demonstration on Urras.

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Source: Chapter 9

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