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Quotes About Resistance

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
~ Hanoi Hannah
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
~ Huey P. Newton
One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Force is the weapon of the weak.
~ Ammon Hennacy
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
~ John Pilger
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.
~ Ludacris
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
~ Allen Ginsberg
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
Every true artist is at war with the world.
~ Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
~ Joseph Stalin
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.
~ Lebbeus Woods
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
~ Hideki Tojo
Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.
~ Bobby Sands
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
~ Georg Buchner
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
~ Simon Bolivar
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
~ Hernando Cortes
The only war is the war against the imagination.
~ Diane di Prima
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
~ Mao Zedong