Uprising Quotes

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

  

  Curt Flood
  • Baseball
  • Relevant
  • Rebellion

• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• I believe tactics have to be based on a strategy of creative tension. … If what you’ve done is made everything about ‘Oh, they just broke a bunch of windows,’ not ‘Oh, man, this is serious,’ you’re in trouble. That being said, if you look at what happened in Baltimore, there was a lot of righteous anger in that uprising that did advance the conversation. It wasn’t until Baltimore that people started seriously talking about the social conditions in a lot of these communities.

  

  Eugene Puryear
  • Talking
  • Strategy
  • Conditions

• Every uprising has to start somewhere. It’s something that needs to come from the people.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Start
  • Come

• And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• 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

• The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Violence
  • Accept
  • Uprising