Quotes about Uprising
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
— Frederick Douglass
In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom in one majestic chorus
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
— Anonymous
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
— Karl Barth
Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary
— Walter Rauschenbusch
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson