Quotes About Defiance

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!

The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.

Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.

Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

An oppressed people will always rise.

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

When Donald Trump comes after any part of our community, he'll find 419,000 Minneapolitans and me standing squarely in his way. That's the kind of wall I can support.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.