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Quotes About Resistance

All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.
~ Laura Ingraham
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
~ Ian Brown
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
~ Lysander Spooner
There is an intention to colonise Libya. And this makes the Libyan people want to fight the new colonisation by the West.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
~ Norman Finkelstein
I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
Please," she breathed again, afraid to move, afraid to do anything but beg. "Please, Sylvan, don't." With a low, frustrated growl, he pulled back. But the need in his eyes still burned just as brightly, his lust for her white-hot and unquenchable. "Need to mark you. Need to make you mine." His voice was the growl of a beast denied its prey. "But I won't. Not now." "Sylvan…
~ Evangeline Anderson
Slavery is back but never went away
~ Eve Ensler
aquilo que faz parte do âmbito pessoal é também um ato político, [...] o diálogo pode ser uma forma de resistência.
~ Eve Ensler
One might expect, on the basis of its overwhelming advantages, that the Dvorak keyboard would have completely replaced the inferior QWERTY keyboard. On the contrary, after more than 50 years, almost all typists are still using the inefficient QWERTY keyboard.
~ Everett M. Rogers
Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities—
~ Ezra Pound
I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem To mock me now, all night, all night, and Have I strayed among the cliffs here They say, some day I'll fall Down through the sea-bit fissures, and no more Know the warm cloak of sun, or bathe The dew across my tired eyes to comfort them. They try to keep me hid within four walls. I will not stay!
~ Ezra Pound
2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song readiness to be shot / versus / taxes
~ Ezra Pound
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
~ Ezra Pound
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
~ F. Hansen
All I can say is that, for those who may be bent on avoiding the authority of Scripture, no hermeneutic is going to stand in their way.
~ F. LaGard Smith
Can't you hear the hell hounds of society bay in full pursuit behind us?
~ F.O. Matthiessen
There was just no helping some people, she acknowledged to herself sadly. In fact, she thought, with a spurt of resentment, some people could be just downright unreasonable.
~ Faith Martin
Speak Speak, your lips are free. Speak, it is your own tongue. Speak, it is your own body. Speak, your life is still yours. See how in the blacksmith's shop The flame burns wild, the iron glows red; The locks open their jaws, And every chain begins to break. Speak, this brief hour is long enough Before the death of body and tongue: Speak, 'cause the truth is not dead yet, Speak, speak, whatever you must speak.
~ Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Tiana wanted to dig in her heels--literally--as Lottie tugged on her arm, but she stood no chance when pitted against her best friend and her daddy. Instead, she braced herself for the impact of having to be near Naveen and pretend he had no effect whatsoever on her. She was no Evelyn Preer, but a few more months of this and her acting skills might get her all the way to Hollywood.
~ Farrah Rochon
Desde que un ser humano aprendió a escribir y divulgar sus palabras, nunca faltó otro que quisiera borrarlas, destruirlas, hacerlas desaparecer de la faz de la Tierra.
~ Federico Andahazi
Algunas cosas no cambian. Hay cosas encerradas detrás de los muros que no pueden cambiar porque nadie las oye.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca