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Quotes About Defiance

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.
~ Tanushree Dutta
I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.
~ Park Yeon-mi
I reject the idea of myself as a tragic figure.
~ Neil Bush
I wanted to be a horse trainer against my mother's will.
~ Bob Baffert
I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.
~ Jay London
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
~ Jalal Talabani
Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive.
~ Sebastian Lelio
I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
~ Sitting Bull
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
~ Sitting Bull
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
~ Slick Rick
Soon after he purchased me, Epps asked me if I could write and read, and on being informed that I had received some instruction in those branches of education, he assured me, with emphasis, if he ever caught me with a book, or with pen and ink, he would give me a hundred lashes.
~ Solomon Northup
I fought the law, and the law won.
~ Sonny Curtis
I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
~ Sophie Jordan
Leaning down, he whispers for my ears alone. "Prove them wrong.
~ Sophie Jordan
Miguel: We've only gone over 100x! Mika: K—gonna roc!! Billy: Glad ur babysitting, dumbass. U know how 2 shoot, right? Mika: Screw u! Kevin: Cut the crap—stay focused treat us like animals we'll show them animals Mika: Hear that! Miguel: Payback a bitch!
~ Sophie Jordan
Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
~ Spike Lee
You know, Susey," he said, "they ruined a hell of a man when they cut the balls off you!" O'Malley never was one to tiptoe around a thing.
~ Spike Walker
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
Women play the villains in fairy tales—what are you saying when you place the very emblem of lowly domestic duty between your legs and ride off, defying the bounds of community and laws of gravity?
~ Stacy Schiff
you can do against Milton.
~ Stan Berenstain
For men must never feel a cause is hopeless-- men must never feel an enemy cannot be beaten!
~ Stan Lee
There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!
~ Stan Lee
Odvaha není ?asto nic jiného než obrácená slabost.
~ Stefan Zweig
Jamás!» grita indignado. Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación. ¿No
~ Stefan Zweig