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Quotes About Defiance

Out of frustration and hopelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defense by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are.
~ Sanyika Shakur
We shall enjoy it As for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!
~ Sappho
When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.
~ Sara Ahmed
And more than that, she just looked… tired. Like she'd battled the world and the world had won.
~ Sara Shepard
What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.
~ Sara Shepard
Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha
~ Sara Shepard
I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
~ Sara Sheridan
Look at you!Defiant,fiery,fearless,your face flushed,your skin glowing with anger,your body suffused with an energy i could touch-my sweet sexy Ellen,you`re provoking me even now." -Addan de Torre
~ Sara Wood
Daleina would not be kept from her fate. She'd run toward it, arms open, and kick fate in the face.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
~ Quentin Tarantino
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.
~ Janice Dickinson
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
~ Alice Walker
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
~ Anne Sexton
I want to start saying bad words all the time!
~ Chelsea Handler
The white devil's time is up.
~ Malcolm X
I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
~ Mat Hoffman
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
~ Pierce Brosnan
I'll fight anyone, at any time!
~ Oscar Gutierrez
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.
~ Richelle Mead
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
~ Jules Laforgue