Quotes About Uprising

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Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Because revolution—armed uprising—requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die—or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.

Beyond Cina and the Athenaeum stretched Pia?a Revolu?iei, the vast square holding the former royal palace and Communist Party headquarters, where tanks had rolled and the streets had run with blood during the uprising against Ceau?escu in December 1989, the singular event which terminated the Cold War in Europe.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

How do you start a working-class revolution without a working class?

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising put down at gunpoint.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.

People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous; it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he spent some time outdoors and got to meet some new people. It's a pity most of them were trying to kill him.

The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly,

When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

In Berlin, after she took part in a failed general strike and uprising, her petite figure with its large hat and parasol still considered a threat by right-wingers, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten and shot by army officers and her body dumped in a canal.

if the starets can be killed, why can't a member of the aristocracy?' Vladimir asked. 'Why can't a member of the imperial family? Why can't the tsar himself? You must be careful when extracting a brick from the foundations, that it does not bring

That's the way our friends the anarchists talk. Whenever things get really bad they want to set fire to something and to die.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.