#dissidents

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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