Quotes About Uprising

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Let the revolution begin.

I think everyone would recognize that we were in the middle of a fascist uprising.

From the mid-1870s through the mid-1890s, an insurrection swept the backcountry of the nation's South and West. Though disfigured by the white supremacy derived especially from its southern roots, this vast stirring in coveralls and calico, of sod houses and village schools and covered-wagon encampments across thousands of square miles, was the most significant mass democratic uprising the United States has ever seen.

The world's elites have helped to provoke what they feared: a populist uprising against the world economy.

Everything, in writing, has a long history behind it. Even my uprising, my spilling over the margins, my yearning is part of an eruption that came before me and goes beyond me. Thus when I talk about my "I" who writes, I should immediately add that I'm talking about my "I" who has read (even when it's a question of distracted reading, the trickiest kind of reading).

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

It's a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

At Lavenham in Suffolk, ten thousand men planned to converge in active protest; it was said that they failed only because the clappers had been removed from the church bells that were to signal the start of the uprising.

Americans couldn't go to war: with 1.3 million German immigrants living in the United States, Zimmermann was fond of pointing out, plus another 10 million Americans of German descent, any military move against Germany would trigger a national uprising

Uprising by oppressed people, like slave and peasant rebellions have existed as long as civilisation has existed. But revolutions are more than just uprisings , they are concerted attempts to reorganise society.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.