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Quotes About Resistance

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
~ Malcolm X
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
~ Malcolm X
It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
~ Malcolm X
Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.
~ Mark Shields
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.
~ Natan Sharansky
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.
~ Paul Robeson
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
~ Pierre Trudeau
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
~ Ouida
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
~ R.L. LaFevers
It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.
~ Richard Ebeling
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
~ Robert Bly
No man can be convinced when he will not.
~ Robert E. Howard
Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
~ Harlan Ellison
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.
~ Heinrich Heine
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
~ Henry David Thoreau