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Tag Name "Rebellions" (14)

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
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For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.
Michael W. Michalak
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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
Stokely Carmichael
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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Individuals do not create rebellions conditions do.
H. Rap Brown
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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
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But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
Justina Chen
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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
Manisha Sinha
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Successful rebellions always begin in secret.
Stephen King
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It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace.
Veronica Roth
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I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.
Henning Mankell
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Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.
John Keats
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But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?
Louise Bogan