Geraldine Brooks

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

Australian Journalist

Madeleine Albright

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

American Statesman

Liam Hemsworth

If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased.

Australian Actor

Mohamed ElBaradei

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Egyptian Scientist

Chinua Achebe

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Nigerian Writer

Nick Hanauer

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

American Businessman

Yasser Arafat

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Leader

Daniel H. Wilson

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

American Author

Morgan Spector

I have some friends who were involved in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

American Actor

Joseph Brodsky

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

American Poet

Used to describe large-scale public defiance against authority or an established government.

Rebellion Context

Implies organization and planning, rather than a spontaneous burst of violence.

Not Spontaneous

Often associated with struggles for political power, rights, or social justice.

Sociopolitical Term

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a surge or a rapid increase in non-political contexts.

Metaphorical Usage

Can indicate a trend or significant change, often in statistics or social issues.

Trend or Change

Implies a growth or increase that is noteworthy and has attracted attention.

Growth Implication

 uprisings in what happened in Egypt was particularly cathartic for me what happened there was a political coalition gathered together for a political goal and that was to remove the leader we need to move one step beyond that now we need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalition's loosely based political

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 in fact means freedom and freedom is not for sale freedom actually is something that is ours but by birth and we have full rights to protect it especially when we feel that someone is taken away from us and that being said let me share a crazy observation with you today I've been terrified away cyborg uprising like

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 or am I just internalizing what other people are just shouting into the atmosphere and into the internet? I think, there's moments where obviously, a lot the uprisings in June would not have happened if it wasn't for the information that was shared and that action, of course, was so important.

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 biggest industry in the world that they have more money and more influence than any other sector so I mean do it the more that they can be sort of popular uprising against that the better but I think the scientific fact of the matter is we are unavoidably headed towards

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 There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs. This is one of the major drivers of the recent uprisings,

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 And they marched peacefully through the streets to protest the law. At an intersection, they met up with the police, and when the kids refused to turn back, the police officers set dogs on them and then they opened fire and the Soweto uprising ended in tragedy.

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 and that sort of thing. You'll notice a theme in these examples is the robot uprising and the dystopic view of what robots will do to the world. To depart from that, I'd like to give an example of what I think are my two favorite robots in history.

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 and defend their ancient libraries. And although they weren't always successful, many of the most important manuscripts were thankfully saved, and today each one of the shrines that was damaged during that uprising have been rebuilt,

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 have an uprising of this sort they put together a Blue Ribbon Commission the Blue Ribbon Commission tells them something remarkably similar to what all the previous blue-ribbon Commission's have said if you read the current

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 that it upends everything we thought we knew. One thing we know for sure is that more upheavals are coming. In a completely interconnected world a single political uprising,

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