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• For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Errors, Doe

  "History Of Florence And The Affairs Of Italy".

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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, White

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

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• The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

  Chinua Achebe

  Government, Problem, Ends

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Reality, Dynamics, Genius

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

  Bo Derek

  Funny, Fashion, Money

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

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Nsa, Special, Middle East

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Our World, Names

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

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• Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Poetry, Rebellion

  1919 Jurgen.

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• That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

  Lester Bangs

  Teenager, Thinking, Records

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

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• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Men, Rebel

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  Dudley Nichols

  Break Up, Rebellion, Printing

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• And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

  Madeleine Albright

  Long, Revolution, Different

  "Interview with Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2011.

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• The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

  Mary Oliver

  People, Creative, Earth

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• ‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

  Suzanne Collins

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.280, Scholastic UK

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• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

  Suzanne Collins

  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.167, Scholastic Inc.

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• Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Angel, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press

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• Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

  Neal Shusterman

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

  Herman Cain

  President, Different, Stuff

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• The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  War, Gun Rights, Unnecessary

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• Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Real, Second Chance, Accomplishment

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• Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Motivational, Success, Determination

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• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

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• The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

  Amira Hass

  Long, People, Forever

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  People, Elements, Arms

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