Quotes About Resistance

The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. *

In 1850, Dr. Samuel Cartwright reported in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal the discovery of a new disease, which he called drapetomania. Drapetomania was a condition that caused sulkiness, dissatisfaction, and a desire to avoid service. It was used to describe slaves who sought to run away from their servitude: drapetes, the ancient Greek word for "runaway slave," and mania for "excessive energy or activity.

I swore never to use the emoticon ever… until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first :) and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, :) became a regular staple of my daily correspondence

Everywhere we'd gone that day, bronze plaques kept popping up to mark some historical occasion. Here resistance fighters had dug a tunnel, here the dissidents had withstood the tanks. The whole city was like that: one giant monument to the heroes and martyrs. But what about those of us just trying to get by? I put on my sunglasses and stared out at the water.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.

I'm used to seducing and then killing men when they are at their most vulnerable. Tonight, though, it is me who is fighting the urge to surrender.

Furthermore, it is natural for caring people to sympathize with and support those who resist being oppressed. However, when the white anti-imperialists do get involved in the resistance and are placed in prison, a racist government can discourage other whites from aligning themselves with Blacks in struggle by the severe, at times cruel, treatment it inflicts on anti-imperialists.

The world can see what goes on in the tombs of America as Black people are being slowly strangled and suffocated to death. . . .

El viento la golpeaba en la pollera, trabándole los pasos, haciéndola inclinarse apenas, como un barco de vela que viniera hacia mí desde la noche.

Como se sabe, los Borbones ni aprenden, ni olvidan.

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice.

No puedes domar un río, Antonia. Tienes que rendirte a la corriente, y convertir su poder en el tuyo. —¿Controlar cediendo el control? No tiene sentido. —No todo lo tiene, ni tiene por qué tenerlo. Ríndete al río, Antonia —dice Mentor.

Habrá hombre de sangre tan fría que no brame de ira al ver entrar a un ignorante ministro el tribunal que en tono despótico manda abrir los estantes, registra los libros que con tanto afán y gastos se han adquirido, y los lleva a podrirse amontonados en una sala del al Inquisición, con miles otros que han tenido la misma suerte?

Sabe que hay un periodo en que lo viejo no termina de morir y lo nuevo no acaba de imponerse

no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.

Charlotte comprende que el futuro no es un panorama ni una perspectiva, es un puño que te agarra, fuerte, irresistible, ineludible.

En qué estoy pensando? Estoy pensando en que si ya ni siquiera me permiten pensar, si invaden incluso mi cabeza, no queda ningún lugar para refugiarse. Salvo, quizá, la locura.

Now that the Allies had made good on their promises, these people were taking their uniforms out of mothballs and claiming they had been part of the Resistance all along. It was a situation repeating itself all over France.

some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.

The righteous anger of women and other subordinated groups, which violates dominant norms of compliant and willing submission, is always particularly threatening

Are you aware of the penalties reserved for freethinkers? I could send you to the block. Good.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It'll take only a few seconds. It's not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I'll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.