Uprising Quotes - Page 8

• To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Class, Criticism, Ears

  RICHARD HOFSTADTER (1962). “The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It”

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• Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death

  Georges Brassens

  Death, Age, Paradise

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• I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Taken, Two, People

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mind, Fiction

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.53, Macmillan

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