Quotes About Resistance

But my eyelids are heavy. I fight to keep them open, fight as always the loss of control, which feels like the ultimate loss of choice.

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is -- it can only be -- the vigor of his protest against it.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.

The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

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

Let me put it this way: if someone still thinks that a single country can withstand the influence of multinational corporations, then it's about time for him to wake up and smell the coffee.

the emergency is already here, the cup of endurance fast running over – but the onrush of catastrophe does have a temporality of its own. It imposes tight constraints on those who want to fight.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too', as one West German columnist wrote in 1968, relaying the words of a visiting Black Power activist.

People wielding that axe have always been told that we're fucked, we're doomed, we should just try to scrape by, nothing will ever change for the better; from the slave barracks to the Judenräte and onwards, every revolt has been discouraged by the elders of defeatism.

Gandhi's strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them.

Do we conclude that the only thing left is learning to die – a position already propounded by some – and slide down the side of the crater into three, four, eight degrees of warming? Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?

In the ghettos, as in the extermination camps to which they were the antechamber, the résistants embarked on a race against death. To struggle and resist was the only lucid choice, but this most often meant for the fighters no more than choosing the time and manner of their death. Beyond the immediate outcome of the struggle, which most often was inevitable, their combat was for history, for memory

Not only do the rich make our lives miserable, they are working to terminate the lives of multitudes.

Talk! Talk! Talk!' he exclaimed after yet another convention of a pacifist abolitionist society. 'That will never free the slaves! What is needed is action – action.

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.

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.

In current German usage, the concepts "Americanization" (Ameri-kanisierung) and "American conditions" (amerikanische Verhaltnisse; amerikanische Bedingungen) almost invariably stand for something negative, bad, and above all threatening, something that absolutely has to be avoided or—if the European patient has already contracted this ailment—somehow needs to be alleviated or diminished.

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

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

Another fugitive, writing in the 1820s compared the sight of the whipped slave's black to that of 'a field lately ploughed' and proposed with scalding irony that 'if it were not for the stripes on my back' he would bequent his own skin to the government to be used as parchment wrapping for tht 'charter of American liberty' the US Constitution.

Cutting to the heart of the matter, Lincoln made the irrefutable point: "People of any color seldom run, unless there be something to run from." Two SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDERS 1.