Quotes About Resistance

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

If you look back at old Captain America comic strips, he used to fight Nazis, you know? The American ideal is standing up and saying, 'No, that is not the status quo, and we will not accept that.'

I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.

You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

I have a strong sense of injustice and not admitting things just because that is the way someone says it should be. I need to understand. I need to agree.

The more insanity that comes from Washington, D.C., the stronger the loyal opposition becomes.

If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.