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Quotes About Uprising

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
~ Philip Sidney
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.
~ Saoirse Ronan
Every generation needs a new revolution.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.
~ Jamil Al-Amin
You have heard tales of the 'jacquerie' beginning in the villages?
~ Jane Feather
If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
~ Albert Meltzer
For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.
~ Alex de Waal
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
~ Oliver Tambo
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.
~ Richard Engel
Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions.
~ Reza Aslan
I kept seeing turning points. First the uprising. Then the creation of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA. Now a big assassination bombing in the heart of Assad's government. But the turn never came. It just got worse and worse.
~ Richard Engel
The types who planned an insurrection against Roosevelt in the thirties
~ Ken Follett
hemos ganado —se dijo—. Somos los vencedores. El pueblo ha derrocado a sus opresores.»
~ Ken Follett
Lo hemos conseguido —pensó—. Hemos organizado una revolución.» «Hemos derrocado al zar.»
~ Ken Follett
Ya está —pensó Grigori—. Esto es una revolución.»
~ Ken Follett
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
~ Karl Barth
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
~ William Shakespeare
First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
~ William Shakespeare
She once led this secret uprising to switch the voice boxes of Barbies and G.I. Joes. When they hit the shelves, G.I. Joe said, 'Let's go shopping!' and Barbie said, 'The enemy must be overtaken.' I laugh. "No way." "Yes way. Sex-role stereotyping in children's toys, all that.
~ Deb Caletti
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
~ James Russell Lowell
sansculottes
~ Jay Winik
My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects.
~ Jeff Shaara
The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.
~ Elizabeth Peters