Quotes About Resistance

lovely young lady is telling you, pal, is, you're cut off. The gravy train just pulled into its last stop. I know the sound of those brakes." I yanked the curtain out of Mr. Rose's hand, scowled, and turned back to Mr. Williams. "What's your number, girl?" he demanded. I almost laughed. As in the prison system, Mr. Williams thought we went by numbers

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. "Dragon take all!" he gasped. "Will

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Baldwin penned a powerful open letter to Angela Davis, later published in The New York Review of Books. He famously wrote: "We must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

In the face of such evil, the federal government continued to slow-walk substantive reform, and white people continued to be white people.

tell my students at Princeton that it was just down the street, at a restaurant on Route 1, that Baldwin hurled a glass at a waitress and shattered a mirror after he was refused service and ended up having to run for his life.

When a black man, whose destiny and identity have always been controlled by others, decides and states that he will control his own destiny and rejects the identity given to him by others, he is talking revolution." That threat to the

I believe an elsewhere can and must be found here: in our efforts to refuse to accommodate and adjust to the status quo and in those very small moments when we make choices that place us outside of the norms and expectations that confine us, when we cultivate the capacity to say no. In

In front of him was the bitterness and disappointment in a country that fought them at every turn.

perfection. The lie is the story that warps reality in this country, which means that resisting it involves telling in each moment a truer story, one that casts the lie into relief, showing it for what it is. And

But from his perch in France, he had also seen the dawning of a mass movement in the United States and returned to bear witness to the courage and sacrifice of those he called "improbable aristocrats," like the Little Rock Nine, Dr. King, and the young people who sat in at lunch counters across the South.

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

if someone does not want help, there is little you can do to get them to accept it.

When we anticipate all of these potential difficulties, we are experiencing learning anxiety, which often accompanies any unlearning and is the primary source of resistance to change. As long as learning anxiety remains stronger than survival anxiety, we will resist change and avoid learning.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for the moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.