Uprising Famous Quotes

As time passed there was no more buying food, no money, no supplies. On some days, we wouldn’t even have a crumb to eat. There’s a vivid scene in Nanni Loy’s The Four Days of Naples, a movie made after the war about the uprising of the Neapolitans against the occupying Germans, in which one of the young characters sinks his teeth into a loaf of bread so voraciously, so desperately, I can still identify with him. In those four famous days in late September, when Naples rose up against the Germans—even before the Allies arrived, it was the climax of a terrible period of deprivation and marked the beginning of the end of the war in Italy.

Yet all the while these same liberals were calling for more uprisings in the Arab world, more bravery from the protestors, more upheavals, more violence and chaos, anywhere except outside their own front door. In a sense, the liberals in the West are even more objectionable than the neoconservatives. Both, of course, are armchair generals, sipping on their claret and puffing on their cigars as they send thousands out of the trenches to certain death. As George Orwell famously said: “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single Arab nation, but due to the famous independent streak ingrained in the Arab personality, nothing came of those efforts. In fact, the Middle East has suffered from numerous uprisings, wars, and violent revolutions since the end of World War I right up to the present day.

In the famous Battle of New Orleans, the Americans won the only real victory of the War of 1812.

The famous Sea Colony having closed in 1968, there were only two lesbian bars in Manhattan in 1970: Kooky’s, on West Fourteenth Street, and Gianni’s, on West Nineteenth; both served watered-down, overpriced drinks in an atmosphere less than congenial. Kooky’s was named after the fearsome woman who was herself always on the premises. A heterosexual, and purportedly an ex-prostitute, Kooky had dyed, lacquered blond hair and was given to wearing pink crinoline dresses. Karla has described Kooky as looking “more like a poorly put-together transvestite than a woman.

The most famous example of the latter was the so-called Ciompi uprising of 1378, when the city’s downtrodden cloth workers revolted against their masters and, amid mass disturbances, set fire to the palaces of the aristocratic families and temporarily seized control of the Republic.