
“An armed insurrection … would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.”
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), p. 68
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), pp. 62-63
“An armed insurrection … would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.”
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), p. 68
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), pp. 67-68
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proposed by Maximilien Robespierre" (24 April, 1793)
Original: (fr) XXIX. Dans tout état libre, la loi doit surtout défendre la liberté publique et individuelle contre l'autorité de ceux qui la gouvernent. Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.
“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.”
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
“Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.”
September 23, 1777, p. 363
A toast made by Johnson, as Boswell states, "when in company with some very grave men at Oxford".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 22–27.
Collected Works
“A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/big5/nonmarxists/mao/19270300.htm.湖南農民運動考察報告
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Context: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Speech on the Trial of Louis XVI (Dec. 3, 1792)
Source: https://ihrf.univ-paris1.fr/enseignement/outils-et-materiaux-pedagogiques/textes-et-sources-sur-la-revolution-francaise/proces-du-roi-discours-de-robespierre/ Speech on the Trial of Louis XVI (Dec. 3, 1792)
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