Quotes About Resistance

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the to light is, know what it will do to them. And they come anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if in our lifetime dogs and firehoses are released or opened on us. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of us get a billy club to the head. I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, some of us go to jail just like Martin Luther King did on trumped up charges. Tough times are coming.

You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards.

He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance — that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country's dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune.

And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance.

the powerful and the powerless.

once the citizenry acquiesces to a new power, believing that it does not affect them, it becomes institutionalized and legitimized and objection becomes impossible.

Attributing dissent to personality disorders is hardly an American invention. Soviet dissidents were routinely institutionalized in psychological hospitals, and Chinese dissidents are still often forcibly treated for mental illness.

There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.

him, Cousin One. But first, I'll take this." He grabbed for Riff's flute. Riff jumped back. "No, you won't!" Captain Zee swung his whip,

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.

Don't worry, honey," she said to me comfortingly, "it's important for someone who could play the game—and win—to say: 'The game isn't worth shit.'

We don't win by imitating what we're against.

As in history, a potentially powerful majority was being divided by an entrenched powerful few.

Politics don't begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.

A strong urge to succeed coupled with strong opposition to what it takes to succeed is the surest way to failure.

Those in the direst need of the medication resist it the most.

Ah! dou? suflete-s în mine! Cum se zbat În piept s? nu mai locuiasc? împreun?! Unul de lume strâns m? ?ine, încle?tat; cu voluptate, cel?lalt puternic c?tre cere?ti limanuri m? îndrum?.

I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)