Quotes About Resistance

In fact, as we have seen, every subatomic particle in your body is responding in a limitless way to the great dance of energies that is the cosmos. The only reason you are not experiencing the life process in all its majesty and profundity is your current state of mental resistance. Your psychological structure is a stone wall. If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience. Just the act of inhaling and exhaling can be a tremendous love affair.

If you avoid any experience—whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy—it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. This is why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.

You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. That

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

A thousand ways every day, the white man is telling you You can't live here, you can't enter here, you can't eat here, drink here, walk here, work here, you can't ride here, you can't play here, you can't study here. Haven't we seen enough to see that he has no plan to *unite* with you?

Why is the American black man so complacent about being trampled upon? Why doesn't the American black man fight to be a human being?

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

Whether you use bullets or ballots, you've got to aim well; don't strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.

Our unity shocked them and we should continue to shock the white man by working together." (Set the Night on Fire)

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

If it is all right for black people to be drafted and sent to Korea or South Vietnam or Laos or Berlin or someplace else to fight and die for the white man, then there is nothing wrong with that same black man doing the same thing when he is under the brutality in this country at the hands of the white man.

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

That's when Mr. Muhammad's patience wore thin. And with his nod, I began returning their fire.

The white man's system has been imposed upon non-white peoples all over the world.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion. In America for centuries it had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and "Yessa, Massa" and Uncle Tomming. But now, things were different.

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

El periodismo está vivo y por eso lo matan.

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.

the main thing we were made for is to work with others. Secondly, to resist our body's urges. Because things driven by logos—by thought—have the capacity for detachment—to resist impulses and sensations, both of which are merely corporeal. Thought seeks to be their master, not their subject.

theologian Dorothee Soelle, who died in April 2003. It's a book I really commend to you. The main title is The Silent Cry. The subtitle is Mysticism and Resistance. The