revolutionary
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Finding a revolutionary artist during cocktail hour at the opening gala of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries was like shooting fish in a barrel.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
American revolutionary Patrick Henry observed in 1788, “The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Citadelle Laferrière, also known as Citadelle Henry, was built by revolutionary Henri Christophe shortly after Haiti gained independence from France.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
It wasn’t enough for Kim Il Sung to have a revolutionary ideology of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
What one historian has called “the perishability of revolutionary time” meant that the political will to act was also racing against the clock.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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