Quotes About Resistance

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'

I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

The arrogance of power must be undermined.

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.

I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.

Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

I've met a lot of people who were resistant to my ideas, because they were afraid to get into unfamiliar conversations. I didn't listen to them.

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ''There is no help for you.'' But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.

Today, death is your opponent.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don't want it.

When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red