Quotes About Resistance

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest - and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us - and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive to not just Black people but to women, to members of the LGBTQ community.

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

I have been arrested several times protesting.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

No one who goes against her can win.

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?

already started to get used to the sick sweet smell. If she didn't get Summer to leave soon, she wouldn't get her to

These men must die to make a world for Hooper; they were the aborigines, vermin by right of law, to be shot at leisure so that things might be safe for the travelling salesmen.

Contra mundum? Contra mundum.

The temptation for Guy, which he resisted as best he could, was to brood on his own bereavement and deplore the countless occasions of his life when he had failed his father. That was not what he was here for. There would be ample time in the years to come for these selfish considerations.

The more we know about how to do something, the harder it is to learn how to do it differently

Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.

This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen