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Quotes About Uprising

Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And 'Uprising' was what they were looking for.
~ Erwin McManus
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
~ Daniel Ortega
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
~ Geraldine Brooks
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Gaddafi tried to give a masterclass to men like the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, on how to crush a civilian uprising.
~ Hisham Matar
If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased.
~ Liam Hemsworth
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
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
~ Jesse Jackson
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
~ Mona Eltahawy
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.
~ John McDonnell
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.
~ Gail Bradbrook
Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
~ Victor Hugo
Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.
~ Timothy Snyder
This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!
~ Peter Stone
she would be in much the same position as one of those monarchs or dictators who wake up one morning to find that the populace has risen against them and is saying it with bombs.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ha, Mr. Betteredge, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. I pray Heaven they may begin with him.
~ Wilkie Collins
the attempted military coup of February 1981, the Tejerazo.
~ Helen Graham
The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup.
~ Helen Graham
In the vacuum of authority following the demonstrations' initial success, factions from the pre-uprising period are often in a position to shape the outcome.
~ Henry Kissinger
hydra of revolution,
~ Leo Tolstoy
Revolutions are always verbose.
~ Leon Trotsky
Those who lose by a revolution are rarely inclined to call it by its real name. For that name, in spite of the efforts of spiteful reactionaries, is surrounded by the historic memory of mankind with a halo of liberation from all shackles and all prejudices.
~ Leon Trotsky