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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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• 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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• 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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• He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Reality, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.88

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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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• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, People, Minorities

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.141, Arcade Publishing

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• I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

  Hugh Masekela

  Culture, Way, March

  "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Minorities, Empires, Building

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

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• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hangover, Levels, Way

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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• His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Needs, Sake

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Roots

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. IX, 1938.

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• Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Enemy, Coward, Traitor

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, People, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

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• An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Resistance, Revolution

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• I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Thinking, Years, Broads

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Our World, Long, Society

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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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