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Quotes About Resistance

Part time christian cannot defeat a full time devil
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
~ W.B. Yeats, The Rose
What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?
~ Louise Cooper, The Master
We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy
~ Sunday Adelaja
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.
~ Jill Stein
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
~ Michael Musto
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
~ Howard Zinn
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
~ Harold S. Kushner
We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.
~ Ivan Konev
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.
~ John Cusack
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
~ Cindy Sheehan
Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
~ Jon Foreman
It was almost as if she had been lulled into a sleep long ago and had been hovering on the brink of waking but had resisted doing so. Sometimes it was more comfortable to remain asleep than to be awake.
~ Mary Balogh
She hastily tried to shut the door. But his forearm shot up and held it open. They stared at each other for several silent moments. "What are you doing here?" she demanded at last. It was only at that moment that she realized Lady Baird was standing behind him. "Pitting my strength against yours to hold the door open," he said in his usual bored, rather haughty tone. "It is a battle you cannot win, Catherine. Let us in?
~ Mary Balogh
He could not do it. It was as simple as that. He had known it there at the castle as he held her in his arms, his head bent back against the stone pillar, his body aching and aching for her. He could not do it. She had done nothing to deserve him and the kind of destruction he could bring into her life.
~ Mary Balogh
Indeed, antibiotic resistance, a fear predicted by Alexander Fleming when accepting his Nobel Prize for penicillin, is a huge concern for many infectious bacterial diseases in the twenty-first century and has been described as a 'ticking time bomb' and the greatest 'global threat' of our time.
~ Mary Dobson
I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They'd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn't enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda— the advertising industry.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Et diye yedikleriniz meydan okuyor, et diye yedikleriniz ba? kald?r?yor, et diye yedikleriniz sava??yor! Et diye yediklerinizin nefesi ensenizde...
~ Mary Doria Russell
It's distracting the boys, he says. You ponder what can be said that's enough of a fuck you. (The problem with fuck you's in this sort of place is that you habituate them; they lose their potency, and ergo must increase in outrageousness.) Finally you say, What makes you think I'm not wearing a bra, Mr. LeBump?
~ Mary Karr
When two hearts beat as one, there are in-laws to bond with, or, in my family's case, outlaws. But for our first years Warren and I never go to Texas, not once. (Later, I'll resent this like hell, but I don't recall arguing about it much.) Daddy's dying in the house I grew up in, while Mother begrudgingly nurses him.
~ Mary Karr
I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do to go on
~ Mary Oliver
What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do
~ Mary Oliver