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1) "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing 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."

Mao, in his first quote, talks about how a Revolution is not a very gentle and harmonious event, but is caused through violence and is the act where things that were unimaginable happens. Mao basically compares the difference between things that are harmonious(painting, writing an essay, dinner party, kind, temperate, gentle, etc.) to a revolution that is violent, and insurrection. When one class over throws another, this was meant to portray when communism sank and when equality came up.

2) "Wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice, and death is a common occurrence. But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great majority at heart, and when we die for the people it is a worthy death. Nevertheless, we should do our best to avoid unnecessary sacrifices."

Sacrifice means to kill one self to save another, so death is obviously very common. Mao tried to connect the idea between struggle and death through the idea of sacrifice. Mao also says that they should prevent the citizen's death at all costs, but if they have to sacrifice the people's death, then it should be for the country and that the soldiers should be proud of dying for their own country.

3) "In the West imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situation must change. It is the task of the people of the world to put an end of the agression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by the U.S. imperialism."

Mao is basically talking as if Capitalism is a very bad influence and is holding the Americans from being free. In this quote he is obviously promoting the spread of communism and that the Americans shouldnt use such methods.

4) "The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you."

This quote is promoting the younger generations to step up! It obviously represents the elimination of a Confucian's way to respect the elders and that they are always correct. Mao, to try to get rid of that tradition, he is saying that the younger generations should take over and lead the country into a better future. Mao also tries to persuade the elders that it is also his country and that what he is doing is going to lead China into a better result.

5) "Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle, and scientific experiment."

Mao is saying in this quote that the idea of cultural revolution didnt just happen by nature. He sais that it is all thought out and is planned by social practice and that they have to start taking the right actions for the Chinese future.