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The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants took part in 13,754 mass disturbances. In 1929 and 1930, the OGPU recorded 22,887 "terrorists acts" aimed at local officials and peasant activists, more than 1,100 murders.

Lynne Viola
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In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization when Stalin launched a war against all peasants.

Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
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You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

F. Sionil Jose
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The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism, with free healing brought directly to the peasant homes and free sharing of whatever they had in return. The deliberate conjunction of magic and meal, miracle and table, free compassion and open commensality, was a challenge launched not just at Judaism’s strictest purity regulations, or even at the Mediterranean’s patriarchal combination of honor and shame, patronage and clientage, but at civilization’s eternal inclination to draw lines, invoke boundaries, establish hierarchies, and maintain discriminations.

John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

Jules Renard
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A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Dan Buettner, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Ieyasu Tokugawa
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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