Quotes About Resistance

Many slaveholders boast of the love of their slaves. How would it freeze the blood of some of them to know what kind of love rankles in the bosoms of slaves for them! Witness the attempt to poison Mrs. Calhoun, and hundreds of similar cases. Most 'surprising ' to every body, because committed by slaves supposed to be so grateful for their chains.

Look there above the center, where the flag is waving bright; We are going out of slavery, we are bound for freedom's light; We mean to show Jeff Davis how the Africans can fight...

The terrible lesson Burch taught me, impressed indelibly upon my mind the danger and uselessness of asserting I was a freeman. There was no possibility of any slave being able to assist me, while, on the other hand, there was a possibility of his exposing me.

one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat

It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

I fought the law, and the law won.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

I could not let power win. . . Other remarkable things had to happen now, a whole string of remarkable things, one after another until the war was won. I was small, and I'd only done one small thing, really: but still it was a mighty thing. Mightier than what power was doing, with its bombs and guns. It was something great. It was enough.

I was tempted to run in the opposite direction rather than follow her anywhere.

Oh, that, certainly, but not only that," said Margaret. "Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

sometimes, the more you want something, the more the opposite tends to happen.

Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.

He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

We would all be well advised to avoid the motivation to the evil thought. If persistently resisted it will "get the message" and stay away.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Otherwise, whatever you are resisting, you promise yourself one hundred times, "I will not do this, I will not get angry, I'll not be rough to people," and you will see when the time comes, your emotion comes like a storm and all your affirmations are just washed away. All your promises get blown

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.