Quotes About Resistance

Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God.

Love is patient. Love does not resist.Love flows. When you put your heart into it, all you feel is love. Love is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But love always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows sometimes am just fighting with myself.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows, sometimes I am just fighting with myself.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

Think of what the word means literally, to de-press, to press down. What is "pressed down"? Life's energy, life's intentionality is thwarted, denied, violated… Life is warring against life….

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times. Yet a voice within him spoke above the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand.

Enigmas hastiados de su tiranía: tiranos, dispuestos a ser destronados

She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.

He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant. Not to fall was too hard, too hard, and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.

existed in inverse proportion to the defenselessness of the working people they exploited and injured.

No, I ain't wanted there, I don't like it there, I ain't coming in there . . . Good-bye.

He had bludgeoned the Southern will to resist the military strength of the United States. He had destroyed any realistic hope of ultimate Confederate success, and the people of the South realized that the Confederate armies could not protect them. The

This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

Artists. If the Emperor has his way, you'll be the first ones targeted for eradication.

I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.

Given the advantages of fighting on the defensive in its own territory with interior lines in which stalemate would be victory against a foe who must invade, conquer, occupy, and destroy the capacity to resist, the odds faced by the South were not formidable.

Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn't matter. When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is.

I'm Osawatomie John Brown of Kansas," he declared. He liked to use his full Indian name when he was warring. "And I come to free the Negro people.

So you have you price, I said with a mouthful of crumbs. Your soul for a cookie. Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!-Gazzy

I stood my ground. You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out. Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good.