Quotes About Resistance

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

I was chasing that Demetrious Johnson fight. It just really didn't seem like it wanted to work itself out.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.

First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

As with any field, if something does not fit into the current understanding of how things work, it raises eyebrows, hackles or both.

The sort where moon don't rhyme with June, and you're not up to your backside in bloody buttercups. Songs that aren't about your mum and dad. A bit rough, a beat that busts up the old way, the old stodge, the empire and knowing your place and excuse me and the dressing up and doing what you're told.

in some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

a unit can either fight a real enemy, or it must lose. And again, a unit not fighting a real enemy is in the service of another power - there is no middle ground. If a unit is not fighting for itself, it is fighting against itself.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

También veremos si los jueces, retóricas e invocaciones aparte, son capaces de resistir. En ellos, en su talante, descansa mucho de lo que en el futuro veremos desarrollarse. Como alguna vez dijo para sí y su integración jurisdiccional un ministro ahora en retiro, ya veremos de qué están hechos nuestros jueces. Bíblicamente hablando, por sus frutos los conoceremos.

Gravity is not a trivial monster.

I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!

The devil will try any trick to keep God's people out of spiritual warfare... he has everything to gain by it.

When we do not listen to the lies that demons whisper into our ears, they will attack us with lies in the mouths of men.

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

[On certain political opponents:] They are unanimous in their hatred for me—and I welcome their hatred.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.