Quotes about Rebellion
He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.
— William Faulkner
I spit upon your God!
— William Golding
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are not Protestants any moreājust ''non-Catholics''! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.
— Anne Frank
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
— Paulo Coelho
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
— Thomas Jefferson
All sorrow, hardship, difficulty, struggle, pain, unhappiness, and ultimately death itself can be traced to rebellion against God's love for us.
— Thomas Merton
The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.
— Isabel Allende
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.
— Melissa McCarthy
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
— Ulysses S. Grant