Quotes About Resistance

But once you start giving ground, it's hell to get it back.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

Won't let the creeping ivy Won't let the nervous bury me Our veins are thin Our rivers poisoned We want the sweet meat We want the young blood

Laws" and "rules" imposed on you From days of old renown, Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new.

This was contrary to the military intelligence, which clearly indicated that the Chinese would resist by force any attempts to take back territory held by them.

Marx observed that by organizing native regiments in their Indian Army the British had unwittingly created 'the first general centre of resistance which the Indian people was ever possessed of'.

Defiance of Sikh rule would, however, continue in the Pashtun country, at times supported by Kabul.

Lahore Conspiracy Case, as it was called, contains no Muslim name and only one Sikh name, that of Bhagat Singh.

Tilak had complained that Gandhi was asking too much of the Indian people. He was proved right. Non-violence, not harming the hated British, embracing jails, Hindu-Muslim unity, giving up titles, contributing money, the abolition of untouchability—each item on the long list was desirable, but also costly.

In some villages near Allahabad, British soldiers killed aged men, women and children for alleged association with the rebels. Many were simply 'burnt to death'.

Stir and use the dislikes: Sikh resentment of Muslim rule, Muslim resentment of Sikh domination, Punjabi disdain of the Purbiah. Spread word of the chance to plunder Delhi under British protection.

Ordered to open fire at unarmed protesters, Indian soldiers of the Empire's Garhwal Rifles, staged a satyagraha of their own and refused.

Rajput forces resisting them did not lack 'in numbers' or 'the martial spirit', but evidently they were 'inferior in terms of organization and leadership…and did not have a unified command'.

Our understanding of human history will always be inadequate unless we realize that, as Paul puts it, "we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers" (Eph 6:12).

The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.

We are content with discord; we are content with alarms; we are content with blood; but we will never be content with a master. —A PASHTUN LEADER TO BRITISH MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM EPHINSTONE

World War 2,] a time when world fascism ( I do not know the meaning) was being fought by world people ( again I do not know the meaning ).

Ramachandra Guha

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.

The whole world has been fooled in the name of corona and lockdown. Very well said by that Delhi couple who refused to pay challan for not putting up mask. Hats off to their bravery

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

While there were those like Thomas Paine who found the whole business of the slave trade abhorrent, they were far outnumbered by slaveholders who, among other things, forced female slaves into sexual service.

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.