Quotes About Resistance

Luchar implica esforzarse, pelear consigo mismo, oponerse a llevar a cabo sólo lo que apetece sin más, ejercitarse en conseguir los pequeños objetivos marcados y vencer todo tipo de adversidades hasta lograrlo. El

Los tiranos creen que el poder se conserva a punta de bayoneta. En México no es así: basta con repartir a la masa un puñado de cohetes y unos barriles de pulque.

Seguir o no seguir (o quién sabe si en realidad seguir y no seguir): tal podría ser la cuestión que rodea a Bartleby.

Enzo Traverso

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Flyers and leaflets dropped by Allied airplanes during the war informed only a small minority of Germans. This is no accident. Few Germans ever got hold of such fliers, since they were quickly collected by Nazi supporters and members of the Hitler Youth. In addition, the murder of Jews was never a major topic of Allied military propaganda.

He was a proud young man who had been called up into the SS, and he was in a concentration camp. The young man simply didn't go along, and he was shot as an SS man. And that was also known to us in our town.

my cousin hid out at a friend's place. They already knew that it was dangerous for them, because the SA had been marching around grabbing up people from their homes and hauling them off. So my cousin went into hiding, and then the Nazis took his mother into custody, the so-called Sippenhaft [a kind of special arrest for family members].

nearly half of all respondents, both Jewish and non-Jewish, had broken the law in a variety of minor ways. Typical of these were listening to illegal foreign radio broadcasts, belonging to illegal youth groups, offering aid and support to people threatened by the Nazis, and speaking critically about Nazi leaders and policies in the company of friends and acquaintances.

Reality is always so obstructive.

The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle. They rupture on reefs of open resistance. And they are slowly eroded, bit by little bit, on the very beaches where they measure triumph, by countless grains of sand. By the stubborn little decencies of humble little men.

Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.

Give up Spanish, give up anything in the language that broke our hearts. Do not be tempted by English, the language that breaks our souls. Speak only in the tongue of tongues before any white man came.

According to Ramses's inscriptions, no country was able to oppose this invading mass of humanity. Resistance was futile. The great powers of the day—the Hittites, the Mycenaeans, the Canaanites, the Cypriots, and others—fell one by one. Some

fire applied to the soles of the feet," prolonged sleep deprivation, immersion in cold water, and water forced down the throat to the point of suffocation.

Cornel West says: "If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don't want successful leaders.

For Jesus, just as it is for us, prayer and vigorous fighting are the means to overcome temptation.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

His opposition to self-indulgent emotionalism and "phraseology" was the same as ever; his opposition to the National Socialists and all they represented was the same as ever.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. "If you board the wrong train," he said, "it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction

Heydrich was dead. At the end of May, the albino stoat had been ambushed by Czech Resistance fighters while he was riding in his open-topped Mercedes. Eight days later, the architect of the Final Solution fell into the hands of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Thus we were approaching the borderline between confession and resistance; and if we did not cross this border, our confession was going to be no better than cooperation with the criminals. And so it became clear where the problem lay for the Confessing Church: we were resisting by way of confession, but we were not confessing by way of resistance.

Hitler was moving ahead with his own plans for the church. He knew quite well how to deal with these Protestant pastors. "You can do anything you want with them," he once remarked. "They will submit . . . they are insignificant little people, submissive as dogs, and they sweat with embarrassment when you talk to them.