Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
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