Perhaps one is "To rebel is justified / Revolution is no crime."
This however does not seem to me to fully capture the phrase.
I was wondering if there are perhaps other standard translations?
right to rebel! right to revolution!
or
Rebellion justified, Revolution legitimated!
Innocent it is to make revolution, and justified it is to rebel!
The quotation is reversed, its order should be 革命無罪 造反有理. I did not find it in the quotations of Chairman Mao, though some references show he said the second part of this slogan, which was later composed into a famous propaganda song.
well, you need to know the background of this .....you can't just simply translate from what it looks like....there were about 10 years of history in this one sentence.,.... get to know the history first, then you will understand it.