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• Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Character, Development

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• Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Responsibility, Past

  "Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century". Book by Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, billmoyers.com. 1974.

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• Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Pain, Suffering, Remember

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• Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

  Albert Camus

  Feelings, Way, Justified

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.

  Abdellah Taia

  Hate, Book, Expression

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

  George MacDonald

  Roots, Liberty, Different

  George MacDonald, Clive Staples Lewis (1990). “George MacDonald: an anthology”

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• When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

  C.P. Snow

  Hero, Acceptance, Men

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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• It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Wise, Know How, Knows

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• All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Political, Revolution

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• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Home, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Men, Law

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• It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spirit, This Life, Mark

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2074, Delphi Classics

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• It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

  Albert Camus

  Noble, Demand, Nobility

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• There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

  Philip Sidney

  Littles, Reign, Equity

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, People, Decision

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• Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

  Marianne Faithfull

  Uprising, Alive

  "Fictional character: Rebecca". "The Girl on a Motorcycle", www.imdb.com. September 12, 1968.

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Quell rebellion before it spreads.

  Vespasian

  Spread

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• All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

  Rebecca West

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Order, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Powerful, Teaching

  "The Failure of Christianity". Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. April 1913.

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• A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

  Muriel Spark

  Tyrants, Revolution, Chance

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Abbess of Crewe”, p.26, Canongate Books

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