Quotes About Defiance

About as defiant as a girl can be with her mouth gagged, her arms pinned and her legs spread wide open

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat." —Cicely Tyson

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight…

Precisely the hopelessness of the situation constituted the nobility of this resistance.

You can repudiate DESTINY all you want but in the end it wins.

Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...

Alexander (grinning): When Darius was scorching the earth, devastating villages and spoiling provisions, it drove me round the bend, but now indeed what have I to fear, when he gives me a battle to contend?

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.

I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

I definitely don't welcome takeover interests.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and I was well known for my rebellion.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!