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#1

“I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...

do we sit still
under attack?

or do we start pushing back?

never back up
never back down

& FIGHT.”
― Otep Shamaya

tags: rebel, resist, rise

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#2

“Your call is clear, cold centuries across;
You bid me follow you, and take my cross,
And daily lose myself, myself deny,
And stern against myself shout ‘Crucify’.

My stubborn nature rises to rebel
Against your call. Proud choruses of hell
Unite to magnify my restless hate
Of servitude, lest I capitulate.

The world, to see my cross, would pause and jeer.
I have no choice, but still to persevere
To save myself – and follow you from far,
More slow than Magi-for I have no star.

And yet you call me still. Your cross
Eclipses mine, transforms the bitter loss
I thought that I would suffer if I came
To you- into immeasurable gain.

I kneel before you, Jesus, crucified,
My cross is shouldered and my self denied;
I’ll follow daily, closely, not refuse
For love of you and man myself to lose.”
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

tags: christianity, jesus

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#3

“It’s no surprise that a generation of women who were brought up being told that they were equal to men, that sexism, and therefore feminism, was dead, are starting to see through this. And while they’re pissed off, they’re also positive, bubbling with hope. One obvious outcome of being brought up to believe you’re equal is that you’re both very angry when you encounter misogyny, but also confident in your ability to tackle it.”
― Kira Cochrane, All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

tags: feminism, feminist, misogyny, sexism

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#4

“Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: ignoring-issues, rebel

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#5

“If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.”
― Mark Driscoll

tags: bible, rebel

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#6

“Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

tags: rebel, saint

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#7

“Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.”
― Alice Cooper

tags: alice-cooper, christianity, rebel, rock-music

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#8

“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.”
― Mike Norton

tags: action, brave, bravery, choice, consequence, courage, freedom, rebel, rebellion

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#9

“I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: high-school, individual, individuality, leader, nonconformity, rebel, team, thinker, unique

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#10

“She had applied to college without her parents' knowledge, and when she got her choral scholarship she broke from childhood, choosing music as her religion.
Emily and Jess pressed him, but they didn't understand. Their mother's life began when she came up to Cambridge on her own. "It's like a fairyland here," she used to say, when they walked through the ancient cloisters. She was a quiet rebel, buying a Liberty-dress pattern and sewing her own gown for the Emmanuel College ball, dancing until dawn, and then slipping barefoot onto the velvet lawns reserved for Fellows. As a soprano she sang for services and feasts. As an adventurer, she tried champagne for the first time and pork loin and frog's legs.”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

tags: emily-and-jess, gillian-bach, mother, rebel

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#11

“What do you know about dragons?”
“They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.”
His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.”
― Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me

tags: dragon

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#12

“My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you…”
― Emme Rollins

tags: dragon, dragons, knight, knight-in-shining-armor, knights, lyrics, new-adult, new-adult-romance, rescue, rock-star, rockstar, romance, romance-sexy, song, song-lyrics, songs

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#13

“I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.”
― Craig Ferguson

tags: dragon

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#14

“my dragon? save anybody?
you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?...”
― Margaret Weis, Elven Star

tags: dragon, smaug, zifnab

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#15

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#16

“When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]”
― Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge

tags: audrey, dragon, fate-s-edge, ilona-andrews, pride, the-edge

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#17

“I

Not my best side, I'm afraid.
The artist didn't give me a chance to
Pose properly, and as you can see,
Poor chap, he had this obsession with
Triangles, so he left off two of my
Feet. I didn't comment at the time
(What, after all, are two feet
To a monster?) but afterwards
I was sorry for the bad publicity.
Why, I said to myself, should my conqueror
Be so ostentatiously beardless, and ride
A horse with a deformed neck and square hoofs?
Why should my victim be so
Unattractive as to be inedible,
And why should she have me literally
On a string? I don't mind dying
Ritually, since I always rise again,
But I should have liked a little more blood
To show they were taking me seriously.

II

It's hard for a girl to be sure if
She wants to be rescued. I mean, I quite
Took to the dragon. It's nice to be
Liked, if you know what I mean. He was
So nicely physical, with his claws
And lovely green skin, and that sexy tail,
And the way he looked at me,
He made me feel he was all ready to
Eat me. And any girl enjoys that.
So when this boy turned up, wearing machinery,
On a really dangerous horse, to be honest
I didn't much fancy him. I mean,
What was he like underneath the hardware?
He might have acne, blackheads or even
Bad breath for all I could tell, but the dragon--
Well, you could see all his equipment
At a glance. Still, what could I do?
The dragon got himself beaten by the boy,
And a girl's got to think of her future.

III

I have diplomas in Dragon
Management and Virgin Reclamation.
My horse is the latest model, with
Automatic transmission and built-in
Obsolescence. My spear is custom-built,
And my prototype armour
Still on the secret list. You can't
Do better than me at the moment.
I'm qualified and equipped to the
Eyebrow. So why be difficult?
Don't you want to be killed and/or rescued
In the most contemporary way? Don't
You want to carry out the roles
That sociology and myth have designed for you?
Don't you realize that, by being choosy,
You are endangering job prospects
In the spear- and horse-building industries?
What, in any case, does it matter what
You want? You're in my way.

- Not My Best Side”
― U.A. Fanthorpe

tags: dragon, not-my-best-side, u-a-fanthorpe, uccello

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#18

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

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#19

“It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, divergent-insurgent, divergent-series, dystopia, dystopian, dystopian-fiction, prior, tris, tris-prior

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#20

“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

tags: dystopian, dystopian-fiction, dystopian-future, first-love, frustration, love, love-humor, love-hurts, love-punch, love-story, lovers, lovers-sadness, punch, sad-love, teen-love, torture, tragic-love, understand, unrequited-love, violence, young-love, young-lovers

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#21

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

tags: adult, amazon, apple, b-n, coin, dragon, dystopian, ebook, epub, faeries, fantasy, ibooks, ibookstore, indie, ipad, kindle, mg, middle, moon, nook, realm, series, ya, young

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#22

“They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should be the end. Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body. The sin against the body - it was for that they wept in chief; the centuries of wrong against the muscles and the nerves, and those five portals by which we can alone apprehend - glozing it over with talk of evolution, until the body was white pap, the home of ideas as colourless, last sloshy stirrings of a spirit that had grasped the stars. ”
― E.M. Forster

tags: dystopian, visionary

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#23

“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: cool, courage, experience, fool, glamorous, lifestyle, misunderstood, original, pioneers, rebels, risk, standing-out, take-a-stand

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#24

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”
― Clint Eastwood, Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns

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#25

“I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.”
― Sara Sheridan

tags: danger, rebels, stories

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#26

“It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

tags: african-american-authors, african-authors, fiction, history, lamin, liberia, memoir, rebels, the-walk, war, wesley

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#27

“Some rebels are made, not born”
― Rosalyn Eves, Blood Rose Rebellion

tags: blood-rose-rebellion, born, made, not-born, rebels, some-rebels

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#28

“Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: conceal, conscience, corrupt-corruption, dark, darkness, fair, fairness, heart, hidden, just, justice, lies, light, mind, reveal, right, right-and-wrong, stand-up, stand-up-quotes, standing-alone, standing-up, take-a-stand, truth, unfair, unfairness, unjust, wrong

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#29

“I've reached a point, where I no longer believe I am unworthy of greatness,
If the people I'm surrounded by; aren't Intune with my growth, I'm happy to let go,
If the job I'm working, isn't bringing out the best in me, I'm happy to find something that will.
If I complain about one thing, I must be grateful for 2 more.
if I can't always have everything I want, I'll make damn sure I have everything I need.
If life's Thunder hands me tears, I'll be sure to laugh through it.
If I lose some, I trust it's because i am about to win more.
If there is darkness, the light is almost in reach.
Every obstacle, is the gateway to concious living and every heartache is the gateway to the most empowered love you could feel.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: attitude, choice, concious, empowerment, greatness, life, life-lessonsc-life-quotes, love-quotes, nikki-rowe, positivity, powerful, quote-of-the-day, rise-above, self-worth, soul, take-a-stand

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#30

“I am a person. I am not always happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I see brokenness in the world and I feel like I'm dying inside because I want to fix it! I am a person. I am not continuously grateful for everything and everyone 100% of the time. Because sometimes, I don't feel grateful! Sometimes I feel betrayed, other times I feel deceived. Because I am a person. And I am tired of the schools of thought and the judgmental eyes that offer up their plates of useless opinion when I am not 100% floating up there in false pretenses of perfection. I do not want to be false. I want to be a person. And I want to feel and I want to think, and no, not everything in life is something to be grateful for; and no, not everything in the world is something to be happy about. I am a person. My face can do a lot of things aside from smiling. My face can look peaceful, it can look thoughtful, it can look Divine. I can frown and sometimes my eyebrows are scrunched up in the middle; that's because I'm thinking! I am a person. A person that is so much more than what popular opinion expects is the definition of perfection. But I AM perfect. I am perfect the very way that I am. And I would never want to be only what popular thought would expect of me. I am so much more than that.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: be-real, be-true, being-true-to-oneself, being-true-to-yourself, break-the-status-quo, defy-the-status-quo, feminist-quotes, humanist-quotes, individualism, inspirational-quotes, perfection, powerful-person, powerful-quotes, rise-up, take-a-stand

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