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Quotes About Resistance

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
~ Marcelo H. del Pilar
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
~ William Wallace
We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
~ Emiliano Zapata
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
~ Maria W. Stewart
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~ Germaine Greer
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
~ Abbie Hoffman
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
~ Kathleen Hanna
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
~ Kim Il-sung
They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
~ Joni Mitchell
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
~ Ahmed Yassin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
~ John Ruskin
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
~ Marianne Moore
No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.
~ Winston Churchill
The revolution will not be televised.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace
~ L. J. Smith
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
~ Simone Weil
There is never any peace for those who resist God.
~ Francois Fenelon
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.
~ Khaled Mashal
If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.
~ Che Guevara
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
~ Helen Keller
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
~ Nikki Giovanni