Quotes About Resistance

I am adding the next chapters to my manual of disobedience.

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con armas! Los jóvenes no tenían más armas que su juventud. Sólo a balazos aniquiló Días Ordaz las peticiones que no podía atender. ¡Cómo habrán herido las consignas del CNH al gobierno, que les respondió con ráfagas de plomo!

Un régimen que se ensaña contra sus jóvenes, los mata, los encierra, les quita horas, días, años de su vida absolutamente irrecuperables, es un régimen débil y cobarde, que no puede subsistir. •Isabel Sperry de Barraza, maestra de primaria

Ha llegado el día en que nuestro silencio será más elocuente que las palabras que ayer callaron las bayonetas.

the ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

Pride works in direct opposition to internalized oppression. The latter provides a fertile ground for shame, denial, self-hatred, and fear. The former encourages anger, strength, and joy. To transform self-hatred into pride is a fundamental act of resistance.

You'll try to reveal what should remain hidden, you'll try to incite people to learn from the past and rebel, but they will refuse to believe you. They will not listen to you…. You'll possess the truth, you already do; but it's the truth of a madman.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.

First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

The way change occurs to begin with, if you come up with a good idea, like heathcare, you're ignored. If you go on you must be mad, absolutely stark-staring bonkers. If you go on after that you're dangerous. Then, if the pressure keeps up there's a pause. And then you can't find anyone at the top who doesn't claim to have thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made.

A modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'.

Da rabia cuando te construyen caminos, lo único que consiguen es que quieras rebelarte contra ellos, ¿verdad?

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?

The more a person tries truly to correct the world, the more number of people get often into the act of proving him wrong only.

The very first resistance that a person often faces before embarking on a journey towards life's excellence, is from none but one of the friends or family members in his closest circumference.

There is a big battalion of people always ready to prove the right points as wrong, so how a person can remain morally strong and for how long.

For the first time I saw that political resistance can be very sexy. – Director Fatih Akin at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2007