<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # It is your right to protest and be a component of... > It is your right to protest and be a component of social evolution and revolution, just as it is your right to breathe. {{There is no hurtful or violent spirit in true revolution, for if that dark spirit is present, then it is not true revolution, but is even a step backwards.}} You do not build an oracle of enlightenment and freedom on a foundation of brutality. {{True revolution advances consciousness.}} {{Revolution that does not advance us toward higher consciousness and compassion is devolution.}} {{The spirit of revolution should be rooted in the principle that eventually there will be an accounting for past injustices, not a punitive accounting which will create more conflict, but a reform in the state of consciousness that allowed the injustices occur in the first place.}} Those involved in revolution would be wise to heed what this implies. {{Revolution is simple. It is like breathing — out with the old, and in with the new.}} One thing revolution is not is timid, submissive, or obedient. Revolution is defiant. But, revolution also needs to know when to let go and move forward. **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->