Dissidence

They do not know what the word dissidence means, they would not know the meaning of this word. [laughter] Then, they built up their campaign around this idea and of course, first it was the imperialist press and then, as can be imagined, the reactionary and rightist press against socialism, against communism, against the Cuban revolution. ❋ Unknown (1980)

Summers’ cognitive dissidence is too much cognitive dissonance for Obama fans to deal with so they’re just trying to not remember it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My object has throughout been this: I have seen so much of what may be called the dissidence of religious thought and religious organization among those of my own generation at the Universities, and the unhappy results of such a separation, that I felt bound to contribute what I could to a settlement of this division, existing so much more in word than in fact — a point which you helped me very greatly to grasp. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Searching for the Arabic word for "dissidence" a few years back, Egyptian writer Nawal el-Saadawi was stumped. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The sentiments on which such a theory rested indeed for its main support, the power of historical tradition, the association of "dissidence" with danger to the State, the strong English instinct of order, the as strong English dislike of ❋ John Richard Green (1860)

Abdallah Abu Rahma has been in detention, torn away from his wife, three children and the young students he could be teaching, because Israel has apparently decided that civic activism, nonviolent protest or any kind of dissidence in Palestine is illegal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Note that all my sources for what follows come from US military sources, not the peace movement. • 25\% of US soldiers participated in "dissidence," (expressing opposition to the war), and 25\% participated in "disobedience" (refusing orders, going AWOL, sabotage, attacking officers). 37\% of all soldiers participated in one of the two, and 32\% did so more than once. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile, the centre said, a large contingent of People's Armed Police (PAP) has been deployed in Drango County to crush any kind of dissidence and protest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let's just hope this "clear abuse case" won't serve as a foundation for some new federal legislation that'll broadly hit anything resembling "dissidence" from "undesirables" because it could end up hurting a lot of innocent people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• 25% of US soldiers participated in "dissidence," (expressing opposition to the war), and 25% participated in "disobedience" (refusing orders, going AWOL, sabotage, attacking officers). 37% of all soldiers participated in one of the two, and 32% did so more than once. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"dissidence" these days -- and certainly not the careful careerism or factional blinders sported by many if not most of our leading "progressives." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, while Munro makes history come alive, I wish she had found room to pursue Eric Hobsbawm's argument that it was precisely because they were given an unusual degree of freedom in the post-Stalin era that scientists became a source of dissidence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Google is currently in a power war with China, and Google has made the correct choice in its difficult decision between compromising with a totalitarian government that would exert every pressure possible, legal and illegal, to use the information that we trust to Google to continue its campaign against freedom and dissidence. ❋ Timothy Karr (2011)

That would have created too much cognitive dissidence for organizers still intent on boosting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who, knowing better, cynically escalated that lost and pointless war. ❋ Andrew Levine (2010)

They already accept your dissidence, and this is what counts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"My case is an example of the criminalization of political dissidence," he said. ❋ Ezequiel Minaya (2011)