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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay
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The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion
Kevin Patterson
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
Madonna
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Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
James Gould Cozzens
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The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!
Pierre Cardin
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[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: inscription on cannon near ashes of John Bradshaw on top of hill near Martha Bay, Jamaica, it is als
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The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do them good,
As doctors cure by letting blood.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 181)
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day;
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, iv)
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Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life and Death of King John (Melun at V, iv)
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
Madonna
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin
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As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.
Richard Roberts
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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
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A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson
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