Quotes About Resistance

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.