Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
Power tends to get confused with repression.
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
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