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Quotes About Resistance

If someone pushes me, they're getting knocked out. They're going to get in a fight.
~ Cody Garbrandt
I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.
~ Kelela
You want to push a guy up against a cage, there's nothing like pushing a car.
~ Matt Serra
I see myself as a person who is pushing back and fighting against oppression in all its forms, centering racial and economic injustice very explicitly.
~ Jamaal Bowman
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
~ John Lydon
No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.
~ Alexander Lukashenko
When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.
~ Deborah Meaden
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
~ Thomas Hardy
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
~ Tadashi Yanai
We speak truth to power, and we've never been fooled into believing Donald Trump 'can be a good president.'
~ Kevin de Leon
Based on my experience, it's considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
~ Mo Yan
I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.
~ Martin McGuinness
I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.
~ Snoh Aalegra
People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
~ Norman Finkelstein
India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'
~ Shekhar Kapur
I have fought corruption.
~ Jacob Zuma
I've always fought any form of censorship.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
~ Doris Lessing
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.
~ Jehane Noujaim
People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.
~ Michael Buble
Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.
~ Ko Wen-je
Frankly, it's a bit shocking to me the lengths government will go to to let little Rappler feel its power.
~ Maria Ressa
Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.
~ Hugh Masekela