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The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible.…

— Shimon Peres

“I had taken office during a raging intifada, with Yasser Arafat running the Palestinian Authority, Israeli leaders committed to a Greater Israel policy, and…

— George W. Bush

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

— Karl Marx

“There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in…

— Wallace Stegner

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to…

— Kamisese Mara

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas…

— Roger Hilsman

I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women…

— Tammy Duckworth

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew…

— Bill Alexander

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

— Elie Wiesel

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

— Dave Brubeck

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world…

— Adam Hochschild