Huey Newton
Activist
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
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Rebellion
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder."
Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
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"Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach."
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"Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God."
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"Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness."
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"Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles."
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"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion."
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"Beauty is a rebellion against time."
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"The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order ."
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"My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed."
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"Successful rebellions always begin in secret."
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"It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us."
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"Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated."
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"No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power."
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"All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale."
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"A little rebellion is a good thing."
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"Rebellions of the belly are the worst."
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"I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God."
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"if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?"
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