According to FUNKTIONARY:

rebel – one who lives authentically in the present, spontaneously responding to life according to the dictates of his/her inner voice and undivided intent and unrelenting will. Rebellion is unorganized, autonomous and individualistic. Wherever there is organized rebellion, it is no longer rebellion but rather revolution planned by revolutionaries—for in the very organization, the rebellion and the rebel both die. Revolution is a social phenomenon; rebellion is meditative. Lao Tzu was a rebel; Confucius and Karl Marx were not rebels. Martin Luther was purely a cunning politician fronting as a rebel, joining vested interests after creating a rift in Christianity. He was protesting the power of the Pope, not so that power should be distributed, but that he should be given the power. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the other hand, was a non-violent rebel. The philosophy of a rebel is always that of decentralization of power, and is the acid test of the true nature of a rebellion. A rebel is one who would rather live in hell along with those who are Alive authentically living their own reality than to be in heaven with those thinking they hold and know the truth—vicariously living. If your mama or daddy taught you well, you wouldn’t conform, assimilate, or shirk, you’d raise your frequency, change the channel and rebel. For a rebel, its space is always here, and its time is always now. To a rebel, the past is an unnecessary burden—one need not carry it. (See: Authenticity, Presence, Selt-Realization, Protestant, Pope, The Reformation, Revolution, Religion, Ideology, Ego, Mass, Class, Collective, Assimilation, Conformity & Rebellion)