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• We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

  Calamity Jane

  Soldier, Six, Wounded

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

  Anthony Weiner

  Israel, Egypt, Doubt

  "Interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 27, 2011.

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Christian Inspirational, Literature, Patterns

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

  Shimon Peres

  Winning, Israel, People

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• Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

  Voltaire

  Country, Needs, Ancestry

  "Mérope". Play by Voltaire. Act I, Scene III, 1743.

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• Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Home, Two, Stories

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• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  H. L. Mencken

  Leader, Causes, Majority

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• New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

  John Keble

  Life, Morning, Sleep

  John Keble, “Morning”

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• As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Skulls, Revolution

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.32, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, President, Holes

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• Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Anger, Indifference

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• He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Enemy, Rebel, Tribes

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• For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Safety, Groups

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.89, Penguin

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• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

  Danny Glover

  Native American, Gun, Land

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

  William James

  Children, Science, Envy

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Couple, Party, Fighting

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• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Parent, Rebel, Tweens

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• I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

  Katie Price

  Real, Rebel

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, White

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• I'm a real rebel with a cause.

  Nina Simone

  Real, Rebel, Causes

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• Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Rebellion, Relevant

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Reality, Dynamics, Genius

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Done, Chance, Cardinals

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fighting, Years, Independence

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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