No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“Insurrection is the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up… — Richard Alleine 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
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador… — Bianca Jagger 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
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman 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
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying that it is not worthwhile…But… — Albert Camus 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 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
“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
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Once again I was the center of an intoxicating whirlwind. The French Gestapo contained the following two fascinating elements: treason and theft.… — Jean Genet 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 Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. — Andrew Jackson 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
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
![“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/i/886/frederick-douglass-859_civil-war_we-are-sometimes-asked-in-the-name-of-pa_1761326.jpg)
