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Quotes About Resistance

opponents of the regime, and the foundations of
~ Edwin Williamson
Don't be a coward, and neither beg your Freedom nor forget your Rights and stand firm in front of tyranny.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love does not knock; it enters silently and becomes not only difficult to expel, but even that stays impossible too.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Naturally, I carry not a distinctive card between white and black; however, I resist and fight discriminating and inhuman conduct between black and white in whatever way by whoever. My heart and prayer stay in the rights of the victims since equality speaks humanity; otherwise, transparent justice becomes crucified; it's a mentality of evil.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Political power, and whatever else power always faces and bears the resistance, even tries to overcome that. As a bare fact, resistance also defines itself as another power in its context; however, both of these powers display in a different character.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Sunrise and sunset and such other subjects carry such power that neither acknowledges nor recognizes the resistance, which can resist that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
We are still slaves, facing colonialists and their pawns, direct or indirect, in the package of so-called democracies.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Or the angry ones. Holding their heads oh no like a virus is taking over. My mind! Like it's such a big deal. Minds are always being taken over. Succumb, don't resist. Because we do get to choose what we are succumbing to. We create worlds out of what we put into our heads. I don't know about you. It's why I read.
~ Eileen Myles
You can't force a story that doesn't want to be told. It was that kind of year.
~ Eileen Myles (author)
I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.
~ Eileen Pollack
HSPs usually respond to change with resistance. Or we try to throw ourselves into it, but we still suffer from it. We just don't "do" change well, even good changes. That can be the most maddening. When
~ Elaine N. Aron
HSPs usually respond to change with resistance. Or we try to throw ourselves into it, but we still suffer from it. We just don't "do" change well, even good changes. That
~ Elaine N. Aron
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Let us spare nothing but our provisions. For they will be a testimonial when we are dead, that we were not subdued for want of necessaries; but that, according to our original resolution, we have preferred death before slavery.
~ Eleazar ben Jair
Los buenos sentimientos son frágiles, conmigo el amor no resiste. No resiste el amor por un hombre, ni siquiera resiste el amor por los hijos, no tarda en agujerearse.
~ Elena Ferrante
I buoni sentimenti sono fragili, con me l'amore non resiste. Non resiste l'amore per un uomo, non resiste nemmeno l'amore per i figli, presto si buca. Guardi nel foro e vedi la nebulosa delle buone intenzioni confondersi con quella delle cattive. [...] Voler bene scorre insieme al voler male, e io non riesco, non riesco a condensarmi intorno a nessuna buona volontà.
~ Elena Ferrante
When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.
~ Elena Ferrante
But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.
~ Elena Ferrante
Por trás de toda disciplina está o pau, e quando o pau se sente impotente, recorre ao porrete, à polícia, às prisões, ao exército, aos campos de concentração; e se você não se submete, se ao contrário continua questionando tudo, vem o massacre.
~ Elena Ferrante
Les bons sentiments sont fragiles. Avec moi, l'amour ne résiste pas.
~ Elena Ferrante
Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM
~ Elena Poniatowska
En un mitin en Atzcapotzalco un policía subió a hablar; dijo que él era un hombre con dignidad, se quitó el uniforme y lo pisoteó. Luego nos pidió dinero para irse a su tierra. Estaba llorando de coraje. • Julián Acevedo Maldonado, estudiante de la Facultad de Derecho de la UNAM.
~ Elena Poniatowska