Quotes About Resistance

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Terrorism should be struck down with an iron hand.

I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it.

The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.

Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea - resisting occupation.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.