Justification Quote by Thomas Reed

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of…

— Ezra Taft Benson

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,…

— Alan Paton

“Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the "why,"…

— Tim Kimmel

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

— Thomas Hobbes

I felt no need for rebellion. I was a real loner.

— Ken Wahl

Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward…

— Parker J. Palmer

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents.…

— Jerry Heller

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family…

— Bill Browder

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

— John F. Kennedy

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb