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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
- in rebellion
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they
want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral
one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it
never has and it never will.
- in rebellion
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be
to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable
revolution, if any such is possible.
- in rebellion
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
- in rebellion
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold
ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
- in rebellion
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
- in rebellion
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I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in
which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.
- in rebellion
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- in rebellion
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the
true duty of patriots.
- in rebellion
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your
territory.
- in rebellion
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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
- in rebellion
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It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
- in rebellion
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- in rebellion
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy,
indifference, and undernourishment.
- in rebellion
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