Quotes About Defiance

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Being American means you never have to say you surrender.

We are not going to surrender nor dishonor ourselves nor get on our knees whatever price we have to pay.

We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it

Velma you says? No Velma heah, brother. No hooch, no gals, no nothing. Jes' the scram, white boy, jes' the scram.

You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.

Marlowe," he said, even more earnestly, "I'll try hard, but I don't think I am going to like you." "I'm screaming," I said. "With rage and pain.

I was meeting the spitting boys today.

If I'm wrong, you can prove it on me and I'll eat my chair cushion.

So they didn't scare him. Say they just cut off one of his legs and beat him over the head with it. What would he do then—write to the Better Business Bureau?

He said: "Go —— yourself.

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

With bullies it's always the same: whether or not you can best them doesn't matter. What is important is whether or not you'll stand up to them.