Quotes About Resistance

A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn't have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn't have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

There's such a thing as being too determined not to accept a gift

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

If I thought anybody was messing with me, I was difficult.

Blockchain infiltration will be met with resistance because it is an extreme change.

The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

I'm against military methods.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

We faced police dogs when we fought for justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson in 2014.

Burma - and let me be clear, it's also known as Myanmar - and the reason a lot of Burmese and Burmese exiles call it Burma: It's a form of political resistance to the ruling military junta.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.