Uprising Quotes

• The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

  Frederick Douglass

  Causes, Rebellion

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.594, Chicago Review Press

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• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.2575, e-artnow

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• Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Justice, Doe, Literature

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• If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Numbers, Government, People

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• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  George Henry Lewes

  Independence, Originality, Sincerity

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Media, Mind

  "Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

  Max Stirner

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Order, Revolution, Contradictory

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

  Marcelo H. del Pilar

  Peace, Mean, People

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• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  Ada Cambridge

  Pain, Eye, Law

  Ada Cambridge, “Honour”

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• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  Yasser Arafat

  Thinking, Giving, Goal

  Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.

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• If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Life, Inspire, Want

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

  David Byrne

  Reality, Littles, Corporations

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• Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

  Marianne Faithfull

  Alive, Rebellion

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

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• Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Race, Order, Class

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, War

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

  William James

  Agents, Wheels, Conservative

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

  Eminem

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

  Daniel Ortega

  Country, United States, Has Beens

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Rebel, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.140

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• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

  Steve Lacy

  Threat, Status Quo, Originals

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• This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Glowing, Generations, Firsts

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• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Hurt, Drug Use, Confusion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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