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Dissent  Quotes
Any government’s condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what’s happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who...

-Arundhati Roy

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion

-Dwight D.

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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

-Rebecca West

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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

-Christopher Hitchens

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Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become ‘one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention’: a rebel. …And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have … GREATNESS.

-Nicholas Tharcher

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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity;...

-Frederick Douglass

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

-Robert A.

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There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart.They believe this is why Islam has...

-Brad Thor

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And then they started deleting the protest reviews.That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear with virtually no excuse for doing so…that’s not neglect. That’s not an overwhelmed person or people trying to figure it out. That’s an entity that has decided that they do not care,...

-G.R. Reader

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Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual...

-Robert Hughes

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I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist group took a consistently anti-Moscow line throughout the ‘Cold War,’ and was firm in its belief that that Soviet Union and its European empire could not last. Very few people believed that this was the case: The best known...

-Christopher Hitchens

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Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and—most unforgivably—increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

-Norman G.

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be...

-Frederick Douglass

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…when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

-Richard Dawkins

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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

-Benjamin Franklin

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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”[Special Message to the Congress...

-Harry S.

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When…did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or...

-Salman Rushdie

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If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality...

-Christopher Hitchens

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

-Leonardo da

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‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn’t intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

-Elsa Tamez

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But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of...

-Ron Paul

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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

-Barbara Ehrenreich

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Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also...

-Howard Zinn

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To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause,...

-Suzanne Collins

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Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that he had published in an obscure newspaper. This riposte referred to my opinions as ‘racist.’ I would obviously scorn to deny such an allegation on my own behalf. I would, rather, prefer to...

-Christopher Hitchens

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If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question...

-Mary Griffith

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It wouldn’t necessarily be tongue in cheek if a woman told me I kiss like a toothbrush. And I do. In fact, 9 out of 10 dentists recommend kissing me right before bed. Oh, and the 10th dentist, the one with the dissenting opinion? S/he’s probably asexual, and I’m sure s/he must have lots of...

-Jarod Kintz

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.

-William Faulkner

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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

-Abbie Hoffman

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

-Howard Zinn

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

-Charlotte Brontë

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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

-Kurt Cobain

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

-Albert Einstein

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In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

-Czesław Miłosz

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to...

-Theodore Roosevelt

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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

-Catherine of

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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

-Howard Zinn

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The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.

-Edward R.

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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

-Albert Einstein

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He’s the President—it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.

-Glenn Greenwald

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This ‘no dissent’ line was what we agreed in Manchester and is what will see in the Champions League this year,

-William Gaillard

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In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term...

-Christopher Hitchens

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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

-Martin Luther

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I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

-George Carlin

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Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

-John F. Kennedy

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If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

-Albert Einstein

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It’s common to go from ‘crashing the gate’ to guarding it.

-Glenn Greenwald

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Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

-Tim Fargo

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Very often the test of one’s allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first...

-Christopher Hitchens

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