Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
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Huey Newton
Activist
"White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings."
Nina Simone
Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
"I'm a real rebel with a cause."
Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels."
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"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
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"The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration."
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"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."
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"Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art."
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
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"Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains."
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"The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!"
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"Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion."
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"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance."
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"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
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"Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment."
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"Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances."
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"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."
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"In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong."
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"For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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"[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the time led by Abd el-Krim (whose tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara) that sought independence for Morocco and Northern Africa."
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"Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones."
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