Suzanne Collins Quotes

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

... an act of insurrection.

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

… the most sacred right [revolution] to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.