Isabel Allende

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Chilean Writer

Rebecca MacKinnon

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

American Journalist

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

American Author

Tom Malinowski

The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.

Hisham Matar

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

American Writer

Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Burmese Activist

Deeyah Khan

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Norwegian Director

Nawal El Saadawi

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Egyptian Writer

Noam Chomsky

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

American Activist

Timothy Leary

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

American Educator

Used when someone actively opposes official policies or leaders.

Political Conflict

Being a dissident can lead to risks like arrest in some countries.

Risk of Oppression

The term often carries admiration or sympathy for the dissident's courage.

Emotional Charge

Highlights critical thinking and often implies a reasoned perspective.

Critical Perspective

Understanding a society's values helps grasp the impact of dissident acts.

Cultural Relevance

Going against the mainstream might attract criticism or retaliation.

Potential Backlash

 captured the attention of the world. It also captured the attention of authoritarian governments in other countries, who were worried that revolution would spread. To respond, they ramped up surveillance of activists, journalists and dissidents who they feared would inspire revolution in their own countries.

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 Why? Well, because though night-vision goggles are used today by scientists and hunters around the world, it was a capability first developed for the military. And yet, tools of surveillance that an authoritarian regime could use to spy on its own citizens, on dissidents, on journalists,

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 And this leads to point militarization. Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation. And they suppress institutions and destroy them

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 perceive the threats that they could not name because this was the season that friends that you knew were being picked up in disappearing this was the season that politicians were coming up and saying dissidents dissidents and anybody

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 After all, if we can know the inner workings of the human brain, our social security numbers are the least of our worries. Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought?

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 Dissident elites, mass frustration, shared motivation, and state crises. All together, these factors have ignited some of the most radical changes throughout history. Revolutions are often facilitated by a dissident elite.

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 Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy. But the most important reason

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 of the Soviet underground. I expected their work to be dissident and political. But the radicalism in their work actually lay in reinserting humanity into a society that was annihilating humanity itself,

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 books a passionate heart I need Mavericks dissidents adventurers outsiders and rebels who ask questions bend the rules and take risks people like all of you in this room nice people with common sense

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 Isn't it always true? Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels,