{"quotes":[{"text":"Either offend or represent, don’t be a spectator.","author":"Pradeepa Pandiyan","tags":["action","brave","decide","do","impact","join","make-an-impact","offend","participate","protest","represent","revolt","revolution","speak","spectator"],"id":2277,"author_id":"Pradeepa+Pandiyan"},{"text":"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["history","john-steinbeck","land","owners","revolt","the-grapes-of-wrath"],"id":19612,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Freedom is the inherent state of nature. A bird is free until you clip its wings and put it in a cage. Just because you pick up its shit, give it food and water, and let it do as it pleases within the confines of its cage does not make it any less a captive. Even if the cage was made of pure gold, the ornate bars would serve the same purpose.","author":"Dane Whalen","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","anti-state","freedom","government","liberty","revolt","slavery","state"],"id":21809,"author_id":"Dane+Whalen"},{"text":"[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.","author":"John Lewis","tags":["black","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","discrimination","revolt","revolution","segregation","traditional"],"id":31950,"author_id":"John+Lewis"},{"text":"Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.","author":"Harold Edmund Stearns","tags":["acceptance","adventure","america","civilization","desertion","emigration","experimentation","flexibility","freedom","idealism","institutionalized","looting","lost-generation","possibility","rebellion","revolt","status-quo","youth"],"id":38843,"author_id":"Harold+Edmund+Stearns"},{"text":"The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.","author":"Mihail Sebastian","tags":["appearance","beards","mysterious","revolt","revolution"],"id":53957,"author_id":"Mihail+Sebastian"},{"text":"The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.","author":"Rebecca Solnit","tags":["brutality","language","revolt"],"id":72081,"author_id":"Rebecca+Solnit"},{"text":"If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["abolish","aid","argue","arrives","attack","beliefs","cause","challenge","complain","complaint","concern","day","demonstrate","demonstration","disapprove","equal","equality","find","forget","forgot","forgotten","free","freedom","help","helping-others","just","justice","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","liberty","march","object","objection","one-love","opinion","overturn","passion","passionate","protect","protest","protest","protestation","revolt","revolution","right","share","solidarity","solidarity","speak","speak-up","spoke","stand-up","together","togetherness","union","unity","voice","wait"],"id":72476,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Give me liberty or give me d.","author":"Patrick Henry","tags":["american-revolution","death","founding-fathers","freedom","history","liberty","revolt","revolution"],"id":75762,"author_id":"Patrick+Henry"},{"text":"Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from systems. All that had been hurriedly stifled was stirring and fermenting. Sometimes the conscious of the honest man caught its breath, there was so much confusion in that air in which sophisms were mingled with truths. Minds trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of the storm. The electric tension was so great that at certain moments any chance-comer, thought unknown, flashed out. Then the twilight darkness fell again. At intervals, deep and sullen mutterings enabled men to judge of the amount of lightning in the cloud.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["civil-war","french-revolution","government","les-misérables","politics","revolt","revolution"],"id":84222,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}