Uprising Quotes - Page 6

• I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Believe, Support

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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• There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

  Cass Sunstein

  Pride, Thinking, Crafts

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

  Orson Pratt

  Law, People, Kingdoms

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

  Karl Marx

  India, Rebel, Liberation

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• The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter force or the organic synthesis which is a negative form of quality - The Organic Vacuum - that reunites the polar and the increasing to the favour of the uprising of a new life form.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Nature, Missing, Quality

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• Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Want, Want Me, Everglades

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Spring, Desert

  "The Vision". Book by Kahlil Gibran, October 1, 1994.

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• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Success, Butterfly

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• Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

  John Paul Jones

  World War 2, Surprise, Conquer

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• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  Ferdinand Lassalle

  Vexation, Berlin, Notes

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• I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Reality, Trying, Energy

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• ... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Mutiny, Body

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.39, Vintage

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• Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Media, Faces

  Song: Last Days Of The Century, 1988

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• I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

  Vijay Prashad

  Preparation, Important, Spontaneity

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.

  Vijay Prashad

  Preparation, Events, Done

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

  Lisa Bonet

  Native American, Talking, People

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

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• We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Kids, Nuts, Practice

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• Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

  Thomas More

  Hounds

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• All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

  Gil Kane

  Done, Persons, Consistently

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• Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

  Mary Astell

  Christian, Doe, Rebellion

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.169, Cambridge University Press

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• If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

  Charles Inglis

  Country, Useless, Kind

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• Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere.

  Vijay Prashad

  Writing, Red Flags, People

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

  Vijay Prashad

  Memories, Struggle, Dies

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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