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Quotes About Resistance

People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done with losing.
~ Amber Tamblyn
These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Olan biten seni ÅŸa??rtmamal? İsyan. Kendi kendine kardeÅŸinin sana göre bir üstünlüÄŸü olduÄŸunu tekrar et. +Nas?l bir üstünlük ? -O ,eski bir direniÅŸçinin kardeÅŸi ; sense eski bir kaçakç?n?n.
~ Amin Maalouf
Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.
~ Aminatta Forna
No longer a critic, he was now a rebel,
~ Amir Alexander
The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
~ Amiri Baraka
There are black men who love the white man so dearly, who love, I must suppose, the nice warm feeling of shoe sole on their woolly heads, that they would do nothing to see that the white man relinquishes his stranglehold on the world.
~ Amiri Baraka
I can feel shutters banging closed in his head, the locks to every door turning sharply. Even his body is tense now,
~ Amy Garvey
More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media. The silenced majority is finding its voice.
~ Amy Goodman
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
~ Amy Hempel
Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they're trying to buy your soul?
~ Amy Lane
Because right now, leaning against Kenny's counter, he was fully, painfully erect, for maybe the first time in months. He backed away and tried to think about something else - anything else. Losing his job, his mother's cat, Denise - oh, there you go. Limp as a politician's moral code.
~ Amy Lane
Pulling away felt like ripping my own chest hair out. (Hair. Singular. I didn't delude myself.)
~ Amy Lane
Because if it moved faster it would be fascism, Jackson, and we've come damned close to that and would rather not.
~ Amy Lane
Ellery had packed fairly thoroughly, but Jackson was as incapable as the next person of getting through Walmart without buying something he hadn't planned on and had no use for.
~ Amy Lane
Holy God, man, give us a break! You can't fuck all weekend! Wanna make a bet?
~ Amy Lane
The Watcher lived for one thing and one thing only; fighting for the oppressed.
~ Amy Ross
When it does not yield to the rudder," said he to them, "the ship yields to the rock.
~ Anatole France
Menos aún amarse sin oponerse a todo lo que no es amor
~ Andre Breton
Résister « Se priver du bonheur de l'union sacrée » « Il court-circuite l'enthousiasme » Le Dieu et l'idole Spinoza, philosophe du plaisir et de la joie Du monisme au dualisme Refus du matérialisme et du Dieu-Objet Refus du fatalisme « L'existence n'est pas Dieu » Désespoir ou idolâtrie ? Simone Weil
~ André Comte-Sponville
Tandis que son corps la lâche, Marie se souvient : "Je ne serai pas ta routine." Et Steph de rétorquer : "Je ne deviendrai jamais ton habitude.
~ Andrée Chedid
I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life
~ Andre Agassi