Quotes About Resistance

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

Anti-people policies of the BJP government have made strong opposition a necessity.

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

At the end of the day, there's a line full of people that want to fight Canelo and there's champions that maybe fought better opposition than me, but the reason why is because these people didn't want to fight me.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

An oppressed people will always rise.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.