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Quotes About Resistance

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
~ Franz Kafka
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
~ Andre Gide
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
~ Danny Glover
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
~ Samora Machel
The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
~ Kim Il-sung
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
~ Oliver Tambo
Our freedom fighters have struggled to oust imperial forces and establish a secular nation. It cannot be broken by the Sangh Parivar and Modi easily.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
~ David Bohm
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
~ Indira Gandhi
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
~ Noam Chomsky
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
~ Michael Leunig
In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.
~ Diego Simeone
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
~ Hugh Masekela
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
~ Laurence Fishburne
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
~ Christopher Dodd
In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.
~ Joshua Wong
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
~ Jim Hightower
The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
~ Jason Blum
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.
~ Ashley Madekwe
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
~ Victoria Osteen
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
~ Adrian Cronauer