Armed Uprising Quotes

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

'The national revolution has started. The building is guarded by six hundred heavily armed men. The barracks of the Reichswehr [army forces] and police have been occupied. Reichswehr and police are now on the march under the swastika banner!

An armed uprising is inevitable and the time for it fully ripe.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

… a treasonable attempt to overthrow the Federal Government by military force.

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.