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Quotes About Resistance

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
~ John Gunther
It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
~ Billy Gibbons
It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
~ Bob Ehrlich
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
~ Ian Mcewan
The people of the upper castes who have ruled for so long won't give up power so easily.
~ Mayawati
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
~ Simon Travaglia
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo
We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
~ David Neeleman
I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.
~ Scott Speedman
Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.
~ Molly Ivins
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
~ Ma Jian
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
~ Sally Kempton
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
~ Dolores Huerta
Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.
~ Maxine Waters
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
~ St. Jerome
Suffering = Pain x Resistance
~ Shinzen Young
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
~ Milton Friedman
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
~ Vincent de Paul
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
~ Frantz Fanon
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
~ Jane Fonda
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.
~ bell hooks
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
~ Gregor Strasser