Quotes About Resistance

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

La realidad es obcecada y compleja e insiste en llevarnos obscenamente la contraria cuando nos ponemos soñadores.

Quero dizer que nunca ninguém ganhou uma luta denfendendo-se. Para vencer, é preciso atacar.

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

I have always resented imposed constraints, hated all the things people said one should and should not do. A woman shouldn't . . . A man wouldn't . . . People were always conjuring up a wall and telling you to stay on your side of it. More often than not, the wall was false, a cliché, an inherited and unexamined stock response to the world.

The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of extinction.

Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.

The ancient Irish social system was systematically attacked, traditional songs and music forbidden, whole clans exterminated, and the remainder brutalized. A "wild Irish" reservation was even attempted. The

Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men.

Ranging, looting, and scalp hunting continued.

Surviving genocide, by whatever means, is resistance: non-Indians must know this in order to more accurately understand the history of the United States.

With traumatized Navajos watching, government agents shot sheep and goats and left them to rot or cremated them after dousing them with gasoline. At one site alone, thirty-five goats were shot and left to rot. One hundred fifty thousand goats and fifty thousand sheep were killed in this manner. Oral history interviews tell of the pressure tactics on the Navajos, including arrests of those who resisted, and express bitterness over the destruction of their livestock.

So I realized it was crucial to make the reality and significance of indigenous people's survival clear throughout the book. Indigenous survival as peoples is due to centuries of resistance and storytelling passed through the generations and I sought to demonstrate that this survival is dynamic, not passive. Surviving genocide by whatever means - is resistence.

The Indians shall see that there is malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything

Do you have everything you need? No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.

Let the soil here below stink and turn to a scarlet muck, and let us crawl through it until our mouths and nostrils fill with it and we drown in it with our hands on each other's throats—I no longer resist this war. I relish it.

The mufti and his terrorists had achieved their goal: a spectacular capitulation from the British.

You know, it scares me. I mean, allergies are one thing. But all these surplus antibiotics are raising people's tolerances, and it won't be long before the stuff just doesn't work anymore. There's all sorts of virulent bacteria that are already resistant.... It's like back to the future—we're headed backward in time, toward a pre-antibiotic age.

You might be a chicken or a human being, but show a little rebelliousness and the next thing you knew you were all on your own.

I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking-it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I would have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that, or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.