#agitation

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. ↗

— Johann Most

#america #anarchist #country #ever #fortunately

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

#battle #before #called #doubt #enlightened

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ↗

— Robert Peel

#conscience #laws #marshalling #mold #nation

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#atmosphere #brains

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. ↗

— Karl Radek

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