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[[folder: Film ]]


->''"My User has information that could... that could make this a free system again! No, really! You'd have programs lined up just to use this place, and no MCP looking over your shoulder."''
-->--'''Tron''', ''Film/{{TRON}}''

->''"English! English! Behold, Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir. I am not one of you, but I fight! I fight with Robin Hood. I fight against a tyrant who holds you under his boot! If you would be free men, then you must fight! Join us now, join Robin Hood!"''
-->--'''Azeem''', ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''

->''"Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal. This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink."''
-->--'''Kyle Reese''', ''Film/TheTerminator''

->''"Men, if you're willing to fight for our people, I want you!"''
-->--'''Robin Hood''', ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''

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[[folder: Literature ]]


->''"Who asks for justice? We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them"''
-->-- '''Duke Leto Atreides I''', ''Literature/{{Dune}}''

->A list of stories about the OU was running through my head. How they supposedly had a secret network throughout the country. How they had members from all strata of society - public servants, farmers, doctors, mechanics, priests, IT workers, dock workers, lawyers, teacher - any sort of people you cared to name. How they were waging a hidden campaign against the [[DystopianEdict security laws]], against the detention laws, against [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry the US bases]], against our involvement in all the wars - in other words, against just about everything that had happened in Australia over the last decade, all the way back to the September 11 attacks. How they had hundreds of safe houses from city to city, and ferried all kinds of illegal persons between them. How they had reportedly sabotaged US army vehicles or ambushed [[StateSec AFP]] roadblocks or broken imprisoned dissenters out of jail. How they scrawled their [[{{Catchphrase}} catchcry]] on billboards and brick walls and battleships, only to have it hastily painted over by the authorities: "Free Australia!" The words always accompanied by the drawing of an [[IconOfRebellion upside-down Southern Cross]].
->Phantoms. Except, here was one of them.
-->--''Underground,'' by Andrew [=McGahan=]

->On that day, in that moment, they began to make their plans. Somehow they would seek out whatever remnants of [[ScienceHero UnConSciya]] had survived the summer purges, and begin to regain their trust and rebuild the resistance. [[RebelLeader Levin]] would secretly seal off one corner of his mine, ensuring there was enough of the [[{{Unobtanium}} Miracle Metal]] left for him to begin experiments. Quietly, invisibly, they would keep humanity's flame burning until the Golden Hope could finally fly free. Someday, they would a way to overturn [[AlienInvasion the evil]] that [[BigBad Karenin]] had brought to their world, [[UnscrupulousHero no matter the lengths to which they must go]].
-->--''Literature/AndroidKarenina''

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[[folder: Live-action TV ]]

->'''Webb:''' That's ''it?!'' What about closing [[FantasticGhetto the Sanctuary]], what about jobs?\\
'''Det. Preston:''' The Governor intends to form a committee to look into the problems facing the District residents.\\
'''Sisko:''' So what you're telling us is that nothing is going to change.\\
'''Preston:''' I wouldn't say that. But change takes time...\\
'''Sisko:''' You've '''[[TheRevolutionWillNotBeBureaucratized run out]]''' of time.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Past Tense Pt. 2"

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[[folder: Music ]]


->''Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,\\
through the graves the wind is blowing,\\
freedom soon will come;\\
then we'll come from the shadows''
-->-- "La Complainte du Partisan"

->''We are the ones who break the jail bars in two for our brothers,\\
hunger drives, hate pursues, misery binds us to one another.\\\
There are countries where people sleep without a care and lie dreaming.\\
But here, do you see, we march on, we kill on, we die screaming.''
-->-- "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chant_des_Partisans "Chant des Partisans"]]

->''Warsaw, city at war!\\
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom,\\
[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1944!]]\\
[[BetrayalByInaction Help that never came.]]\\
Calling Warsaw, city at war!\\
Voices from underground, whispers of freedom,\\
rise up, and hear the call!\\
History calling to you.''\\
[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Warszawo walcz!]]
--> '''Music/{{Sabaton}}''', "Uprising"

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[[folder: Theatre ]]


->''Do you hear the people sing/ singing a song of angry men\\
It is the music of a people/ who will not be slaves again!\\
When the beating of your heart/ echoes the beating of the drums\\
There is a life about to start/ when tomorrow comes!''
-->-- "Do You Hear the People Sing?", ''Theatre/LesMiserables''

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]


->A month after the Panopticon begins [[FinalSolution Contingency Six]], [[POWCamp prison camps]] in Utah and Siberia fall. Rapid Correspondence Effects and warding transport the attackers to each camp's perimeters. Teams of black-clad killers use magically-enhanced guns and explosives to blast through the opposition, then teleport out with as many prisoners as possible. The wrecked command posts in both camps bear the same spray-painted stencil: [[IconOfRebellion a Sphinx with "The Hollow Railroad Was Here" emblazoned beneath it]].
-> The word spreads through occult circles: [[TookALevelInBadass the Darklings are done with posing]]; from now on, they'll use their magic to forge culture into a spear headed for the heart of the Technocracy. The Hollow Revolution attacks many fronts. Rabble-rousers haunt the speakers that appear in the wake of WAC curfews. The Hollow Ones have always been attuned to the spirit of the age; [[{{Muggles}} Sleepers]] take notice of what they have to say and begin to protest against lost freedoms and missing friends. [...] The Hollowers light a spark, and in the hands of the Traditions, it quickly grows into an all-consuming revolutionary flame.
-->--"Judgement," ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Ascension''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]


->''"[[VillainWithGoodPublicity Sumeragi's PR machine was as slick as a Sinner's Row dancer]]. But some didn't buy it. They resisted. And that's basically how QUILL got started--the Quorum for Unrestricted Information, Law, and Liberty. Nice name, right? Has the ring of justice? Two can play the PR game."''
-->-- '''Gunvolt''', ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''

->''"We drink to our youth\\
To days come and gone\\
For the Age of Oppression\\
is now nearly done\\
We'll drive out the Empire\\
From this land that we own\\
With our blood and our steel\\
We'll take back our home"''
-->--"Age of Oppression", folk song of Skyrim, ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->''"The world is [[CrapsackWorld going to hell out there]]. [[ApocalypseCult Eden's Gate]] is the centre of it all. You want to get out of here alive? Gotta make them feel the pressure! [[SpannerInTheWorks Sabotage their plans]], destroy their convoys and their guard stations. You remember, the more you play with their nerves, [[DisproportionateRetribution the bigger their reaction]]. And nerves... [[AxCrazy they've got lots of it]]. I've got friends out there, too. [[GoodIsNotSoft Good people]]. They're ready to resist. All they need is a spark! The more you help liberate a region, the more the resistance metre will fill up. And the more resistance means more people who [[BashBrothers fight by your side]]. They want a war? [[ThisMeansWar Let's make sure we don't disappoint]]!"''
-->-- '''Eli Palmer''', ''VideoGame/FarCry5 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM42MRLKW50 Trailer]]''

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]


->''"Why do humans keep thinking that [[ComicallySmallBribe minimum wage]] buys undying loyalty?"''
-->-- '''Sam Starfall''', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2200/fc02192.htm]]

->''"Ah, yes, a [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits rag-tag group of heroes]]... The {{evil overlord}}'s biggest weakness."''
-->-- '''George,''' ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''

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[[folder: Web Original ]]


->''"Contrary to the beliefs/wishes of many, revolution, broadly considered, is a wholly straightforward phenomenon that has nothing to do with the supposed apathy of a population. Take any population and give them high unemployment, particularly high unemployment among younger and more educated citizens, remove all evidence of a long-term solution or even that the government cares about this, add in rising food prices, and crank up the temperatures to summer levels and you will have an explosion."''
-->-- '''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/05/camel-screaming-at-onrushing-piece-of.html El Sandifer]]'''

->''"The most interesting thing about the Fireflies is that, in any other story, these would have been the heroes. The Fireflies are a rag-tag scrappy group of rebels resisting an evil tyrannical oppressive dystopian government. They are the underdog. They are outmatched, outgunned, overrun and yet they still fight on. In spite of all their failure, they never give up, at least not in this first game. They are determined, dogged, tenacious; they fight against impossible odds because they believe in a better world. The slogan of the Fireflies is, "When you're lost in the darkness, look for the light." Well, ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' is a very dark world. All of these characters are lost in some kind of darkness, and the Fireflies are offering a light; they are offering hope.''

->''"On the surface, they seem like a very archetypical band of heroes. They are intended to seem similar to other popular and heroic resistance groups across fiction and cinema. They are intentionally meant to remind us of groups like the Rebel Alliance in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series, or Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance, who lead the human resistance in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. There are even some similarities to the legend of [[Myth/RobinHood Robin Hood and his merry men]]. We are naturally going to be sympathetic to a group like this; audiences love an underdog, we love a rebellion, we love seeing a hero tear down the grim symbols of an authoritarian regime.''

->''"The enemy of the Fireflies is FEDRA, the Federal Disaster Response Agency. FEDRA is tasked with managing the United States' government response to the Cordyceps plague. As the disaster worsened, as more and more of the country collapsed into chaos, FEDRA seized more and more power, not out of greed, but out of necessity to save whatever was left. Ultimately, in the name of saving the country, FEDRA suspended all other branches and agencies of the government, suspended the Constitution, and declared perpetual martial law. They govern with a militaristic vice-like iron grip, ruling over every aspect of citizens' lives, casually killing any who oppose them.''

->''"The Fireflies are fighting in part to bring back the courts, the legislature, the laws protecting citizens' rights. They want to restore the Constitution, with peace and freedom and justice for all! But in the [[CrapsackWorld twisted]] and [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally gray]] world of ''The Last of Us'', [[WrongGenreSavvy even the heroes don't get to be heroes]]."''
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@fatbrett FatBrett]]''', [[https://youtu.be/ab86otq3Do8 "The Fireflies and Marlene - A Deconstruction of Villainy"]]

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[[folder: Real Life ]]


->''"Whatever happens, the flame of the [[LaResistance French resistance must not be extinguished]] [[BadassBoast and will not be extinguished.]] Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on the radio from London."''
-->-- '''General Charles de Gaulle'''

->''You did not bear the shame.\\
You resisted.\\
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change\\
by sacrificing your lives for freedom, justice, and honor.''
-->-- '''Memorial to the German Resistance'''

-> ''The history of the European Resistance movements is largely mythological, since...the legitimacy of post-war regimes and governments essentially rested on their Resistance record. France is the [[TropeMaker extreme case]], because there the governments after Liberation lacked all real continuity with the French government of 1940, which had made peace and cooperated with the Germans, and because organized, and let alone armed, resistance had been rather weak, at any rate until 1944, and popular support for it had been patchy. Post-war France was rebuilt by [[UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle General de Gaulle]] on the basis of the myth that, essentially, the eternal France had never accepted defeat. As he himself put it, "[[BecomingTheBoast Resistance was a bluff that came off]]"...It was an act of policy that the only fighters in the Second World War commemorated on French war memorials today are Resistance fighters, and those who joined De Gaulle's forces.''
-->-- '''Eric Hobsbawm''', ''The Age of Extremes''

-> ''Two things must be said about European Resistance movements. First, their military importance...was negligible before Italy withdrew from the war in 1943, and not decisive anywhere except perhaps in parts of the Balkans. [[YouCannotKillAnIdea One must repeat that their major significance was political and moral]].''
-->-- '''Eric Hobsbawm''', ''The Age of Extremes''

->''"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"''
-->-- '''Mario Savio'''

->''"If they aren’t able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won’t break you. They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we’ll see the rising of the moon. I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution."''
-->-- '''Bobby Sands'''

->''"Conquered, we conquer."''
-->-- '''[[Creator/{{Plautus}} Titus Maccius Plautus]]'''

->''"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson'''

->''"Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the DivineRightOfKings."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln'''

->''"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."''
-->--'''Creator/HLMencken'''

->''"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be ''set'' right."''
-->-- '''Carl Schurz'''

->''"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"''
-->-- '''MLK'''

->''"In [[UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} my country]] today there are people who are wondering if the Resistance had a real military impact on the course of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. For my generation this question is irrelevant: we immediately understood the moral and psychological meaning of the Resistance. For us it was a point of pride to know that we Europeans did not wait passively for liberation. And for the young Americans who were paying with their blood for our restored freedom it meant something to know that behind the firing lines there were Europeans paying their own debt in advance."''
-->-- '''Creator/UmbertoEco'''
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