Felice Picano Quotes

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Unrest has its reasons.

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

I am a rebel.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Subversion is what I do.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I really rebel against authority.

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

I was rebellious.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.