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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or a man. Oriana Fallaci
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or a man.
Oriana Fallaci
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
My address is like my shoes: it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Mother Jones
My address is like my shoes: it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones
At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening . . . a young boy took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. . . . I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful idea, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. Emma Goldman
At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening . . . a young boy took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. . . . I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful idea, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy.
Emma Goldman
When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary. Elise Boulding
When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.
Elise Boulding
Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit. Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live. Suzanne La Follette
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.
Suzanne La Follette
We did not wait to be invited to participate. We did not wait to be given power, knowing that marginalized communities rarely are given such power. We took it. Pramila Jayapal
We did not wait to be invited to participate. We did not wait to be given power, knowing that marginalized communities rarely are given such power. We took it.
Pramila Jayapal
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. . . . The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. Nelson Mandela
The oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. . . . The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Nelson Mandela
It is wrong to suppose the source of evil is outside oneself, that one is a vessel of holiness running over with virtue. . . . No; the root of evil is in me as well, and I must take my share of the responsibility and the blame. That was true before the revolution and it is true still. Nikolai Berdyaev
It is wrong to suppose the source of evil is outside oneself, that one is a vessel of holiness running over with virtue. . . . No; the root of evil is in me as well, and I must take my share of the responsibility and the blame. That was true before the revolution and it is true still.
Nikolai Berdyaev
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. Margaret Atwood
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Margaret Atwood
All bona fide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. Sonia Johnson
All bona fide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
Sonia Johnson
The main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one’s neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution. Freya Stark
The main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one’s neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
Freya Stark
When I see changed men, I shall look for a changed world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I see changed men, I shall look for a changed world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
As I read the June 2021 Sunbeams — about revolution and civil disobedience and fighting for what you think is right — it occurred to me that the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 would probably say they were acting on many of the principles highlighted in the quotes.
Those people, who feel disrespected by the “ruling class,” had been told by a president and a media outlet that their way of life and the country they love was being stolen from them. How would Democrats have reacted if Joe Biden had lost, and we had been told by people we trust that it was due to fraud? How can we convince those who believe otherwise that, if there was voter fraud, it was miniscule and inconsequential? I wish I knew.