The Sandinista revolution was without any question a…

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

— Amiri Baraka

“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that…

— Lauren Berlant

It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all…

— Chris Hayes

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had…

— Bianca Jagger

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

— Thomas Carlyle

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No…

— Victor Hugo

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

— Ian Brown

“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.”

— Tanya Thompson

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising…

— Steven Pressfield

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought…

— Frederic Bastiat

“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way…

— Arundhati Roy

“In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile,…

— Philip Roth

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a…

— Rebecca Solnit