Quotes About Resistance

because of the systematic mental erasure that the settlers had undertaken.

sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Beware the soul-sucking force of reasonableness

Direct the Rider. What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity. So provide crystal-clear direction. (Think 1% milk.) Motivate the Elephant. What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. The Rider can't get his way by force for very long. So it's critical that you engage people's emotional side

As Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Clarity dissolves resistance.

If you want a reluctant Elephant to get moving, you need to shrink the change.

It can sometimes be challenging, though, to distinguish why people don't support your change. Is it because they don't understand or because they're not enthused? Do you need an Elephant appeal or a Rider appeal?

there's a good reason why change can be difficult: The world doesn't always want what you want.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

So when you hear people say that change is hard because people are lazy or resistant, that's just flat wrong. In fact, the opposite is true: Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

in situations where change is needed, too much analysis can doom the effort. The Rider will see too many problems and spend too much time sizing them up.

For the sake of my daughters in the centuries to come, I must now stand up against this unjust action you are asking of me.

I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.

In that year, I came to question everything I had believed in before. The only thing I never gave up on was the conviction that there can be no concession in the face of tyranny and oppression.

If the war had proved anything it was that life had unexpected resistance to the instruments with which men had been issued. Simonson

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you had to turn into the side while every nerve in your body said to turn the other way? I think life is like that a lot, way more than we know. And I think love is particularly like that. We think we're supposed to fight for it when we're really supposed to let go; you know, turn into it.