a little rebellion is a good thing
Posted 9 years ago on Feb. 16, 2015, 8:06 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
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PRESIDENTS' DAY 2015
“God forbid we should be twenty years without a rebellion. What country can preserve its liberties if the rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” — President Thomas Jefferson (1787)
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.” — President Abraham Lincoln (Inaugural Address, 1861)
<p>a little rebellion is a good thing: http://t.co/QmOVwkOruY #PresidentsDay</p>— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) February 16, 2015</blockquote>
“The right of Revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression if they are strong enough, either by withdrawing from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.”
— President Ulysses S. Grant (1885)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
— President John F. Kennedy (1962)