Democracy Quote by Jello Biafra

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

— Hugo Chavez

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

— Ambrose Bierce

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

— Leon Trotsky

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions…

— Grace Lee Boggs

You see a lot of anger in the streets , demonstrations every night since the election [2016].

— George Stephanopoulos

Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our…

— Christopher Hayes

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

— Wang Jianwei

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if…

— Gore Vidal

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it…

— Hannah Arendt