Quotes About Resistance

Since the Devil is come down in great wrath upon us, let not us in our great wrath against one another provide a Lodging for him.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

though it's a shame, what's been done to people these last hundred years: men turned into nothing but labor-insects, and all their manhood taken away, and all their real life. i'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. but since i can't, an' nobody can, i'd better hold my peace, an' try an' life my own life: if i've got one to live, which i rather doubt.

He felt the devil twisting his tail, and pretended it was the angels smiling on him.

Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.

Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want.

She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.

But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence. His fists were shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly. THE END

sun is anti-thought

But you make them work for you. They live the life of your coal-mine." "Not at all. Every beetle finds its own food. Not one man is forced to work for me. "Their lives are industrialized and hopeless, and so are ours," she cried.

A new degree of anger came over him. What did it all matter? What did it matter if the mother talked Polish and cried in labour, if this child were stiff with resistance, and crying?Why take it to heart?Let the mother cry in labour, let the child cry in resistance, since they would do so. Why should he fight against it, why resist? Let it be, if it were so. Let them be as they were, if they insisted.

Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.

Tentei incitá-los à vida, e eles incitaram-me à morte. É sempre o que acontece quando há compulsão. Recuar mata o progresso. Chegou o meu momento de estar só.

For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free.

with growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery.

Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud

I didn't like having Grandma there. She slept on a cot in my room and boiled all our suppers. It was unsanitary, she said, the way Daddy drank right out of the water bottle and then put it back in the Frigidaire.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch?)" -from Song of Myself

Resist much.

No tengo nada que ver con este sistema, ni siquiera lo necesario para oponerme a él.

To the States or any of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,/Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,/Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

To the States To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.