Sun Yat-sen — "Revolution is not a picnic, not a drawing, not an essay, not a painting, not a c…"

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 — 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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