Uprising Quotes
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When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
Sally Kempton— Sally Kempton, as quoted in Notes for Participants, National Forensic League's Lincoln-Douglas Debate on Feminism and Gender Equality (November 11, 1995) by Twiss Butler, National Organization for Women
New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove.
john keble— 1827 The ChristianYear,'Morning'.
The Palestinian issue should be at the heart of our unity. It must motivate us to unite and stand in one row behind the Palestinian Mujahideen and the brave uprising.
mohammad-ali taskhiri— Ayatollah Muhammad 'Ali Al-Taskhiri, Secretary General of the International Forum for Bringing Islamic Schools of Thought Closer on the Palestinian Struggle May 2004.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
hannah arendt— Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt (1989) Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
terry eagleton— Guardian (October 27, 1992)
Those who are opposed to armed uprising … must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
— Statements attributed to Lenin in "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb" in TIME (24 April 1964)
The uprising of the five kulak districts should be mercilessly suppressed… Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers... Do it in such a way that for hundreds of versts [km] around, the people will see, tremble, know, shout: they are strangling and will strangle to death the bloodsucker kulaks.
— As quoted in Richard Pipes, The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (1996), page 50
"An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance."
keith olbermann— [From Twitter, July 22, 2010]
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.
yoshida shoin— Vol. IX (Yoshida Shoin Zenshu)
If Heaven does not completely abandon this land of the Gods, there must be an uprising of grass-roots heroes.
yoshida shoin— Vol. IX (Yoshida Shoin Zenshu)
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
hannah arendt— Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt (1989) Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary
The crimson Moon, uprising from the sea, with large delight, foretells the harvest near.
— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Select Poems, The Harvest Moon.
In its long history Delhi has been on several occasions the victim of military occupation accompanied by pillage and rapine, and these occasions have sometimes altered the course of the city’s fortunes, both materially and culturally. One such occasion was its capture by Qutubuddin Aibak on behalf of Sultan Muizud-Din Muhammad-ibn-Sam of Ghur in 1192 or 1193. Others, much later, were Nader Shah’s capture of the city in 1739, followed by its occupation by Ahamd Shah Durrani, the British in 1803, and the destruction which accompanied the uprising of 1857 and its suppression.
— Rakesh Kumar Bhatt, in History and Development of Libraries in India, Mittal Publications, 1 January 1995, P.172
Modern Delhi began with the slow revival of the city under British domination. During the ‘Delhi Renaissance’, approximately 1830 to the outbreak of uprising of 1857, Delhi exhibited the beginnings of a cultural ferment; Western technology and idea entered the city and supported each other.
— Rakesh Kumar Bhatt, in History and Development of Libraries in India, P.175
Whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right, I am born from age to age.
— Krishna; Chapter 4, verses 7–8; Sri Aurobindo translation
The Palestinian issue should be at the heart of our unity. It must motivate us to unite and stand in one row behind the Palestinian Mujahideen and the brave uprising.
— Ayatollah Muhammad 'Ali Al-Taskhiri, Secretary General of the International Forum for Bringing Islamic Schools of Thought Closer on the Palestinian Struggle May 2004.
East, oh, east of Himalay Dwell the nations underground, Hiding from the shock of day, For the sun's uprising sound… So fearfully the sun doth sound, Clanging up beyond Cathay; For the great earthquaking sunrise Rolling up beyond Cathay.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, The Mistress of Vision.
The hard evidence of totalitarian rule has caused in mankind an uprising of the intellect and will. Whether it is the growth of the new schools of economics in America or England or the appearance of the so-called new philosophers in France, there is one unifying thread running through the intellectual work of these groups rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate, the realization that collectivism stifles all the best human impulses.
— Ronald Reagan, in an Address to the British Parliament (8 June 1982)
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
— Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, as quoted in the Daily Telegraph (London, 19 January 1989), on the Intifada.
Next morning, when the golden sunne was risen,And new had bid good morrow to the mountaines;When night her silver light had lockt in prison,Which gave a glimmering on the christall fountaines:Then ended sleepe, and then my cares began,Ev'n with the uprising of the silver swan.Oh, glorious sunne! quoth I, viewing the sunne,That lightenst everie thing but me alone:Why is my summer season almost done,My spring-time past, and ages autumne gone?My harvest's come, and yet I reapt no corne:My love is great, and yet I am forlorne.
richard barnfield— The Second Dayes Lamentation of the Affectionate Shepheard.
