Quotes About Resistance

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

It's not that I mind fighting with Trump's cheer squad... it's that it's so rarely a fair fight.

You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.

Sleep is for squares.

When you are so close to something, it's like a bar of soap - if someone says hold on to it, the harder you squeeze, the quicker it pops out of your hand.

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda.