John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is . . . the most indispensable of duties. -Marquis de Lafayette” — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
“In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came… — David Cook Copy Share Image
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
“Insurrection is the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
![“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation’s life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/886/frederick-douglass-859_civil-war_we-are-sometimes-asked-in-the-name-of-pa_1761326.jpg)
