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• The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Foundation, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Heart, Pride

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• He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

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• The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

  John Henry Cox

  Winning, Justice, Diversity

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• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Asking

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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• The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

  Danny Glover

  Native American, Gun, Land

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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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• We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Son, Giving

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• The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

  Hoyt W. Fuller

  Black, Letters, Civil Rights

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• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Past, Silence

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

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• It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.

  Hermann Rauschning

  Christian, Civilization, Humanity

  "The Beast From the Abyss". Book by Hermann Rauschning, pp. 155-156, 1941.

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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• The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Sex, Motherhood, Important

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

  William Powell

  Government, Revolution

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", 1971.

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• The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant political discourse: this means that often they live even their revolt against domination of the system within the frame of reference of the dominant legitimacy.

  Nicos Poulantzas

  Mean, Class, Political

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• I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

  Deborah Pryce

  Thinking, Political, Listening

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• If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, East

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• The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

  Cid Corman

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Cid Corman (1975). “The Gist of Origin, 1951-1971: an anthology”

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• The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lust, Excess

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1547, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Men, Obscurity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.54, Vintage

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• Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Contemporary Fiction

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Instinct, Obedience

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”

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