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  • It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

    Law   Names   Judgement  
    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
  • A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.

    Men   Law   Birth Place  
    "A Diary of My Times". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1938.
  • I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

    Uncles   Children   Law  
  • Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

    Country   Rip   Believe  
    "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.
  • Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

    War   Russia   Rights  
  • The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

    Barbara Marciniak (1992). “Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
  • Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

    Blow   Law   Brain  
  • The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

    Wall   Heart   Law  
    United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY
  • We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

  • I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.

    Believe   Law   Democracy  
    "State of Emergency Issued in Philippines Amid Coup Rumors", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2006.
  • These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

    Military   Struggle   Law  
  • During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

    Powerful   War   Military  
  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.

    Military   War   Years  
  • The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

    Government   Order   Law  
    "If I am assassinated".
  • Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

    Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail
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