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Quotes About Resistance

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
~ Abba Eban
The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
~ Martin McGuinness
I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.
~ Claudia Christian
When you feel like you can't stop something, you don't want to admit it.
~ Catherine Oxenberg
I only aim at the powerful.
~ Molly Ivins
We can uproot the Al Houthis and Saleh in a matter of days.
~ Mohammad bin Salman
I'm anti-drugs, 100 percent. I don't like drugs or alcohol. I never did either of the two, and I don't plan on it.
~ Hopsin
I get angry when people push people around.
~ Faye Dunaway
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
~ Rufus Wainwright
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
~ Fred Hampton
My father believed in armed struggle.
~ Hisham Matar
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
~ Ida B. Wells
When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.
~ Ehud Barak
Les lois sont des toiles d'araignée à travers lesquelles passent les grosses mouches et où restent les petites
~ Honore de Balzac
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
And it was in sheer self-defence that they obeyed - as if by dancing they somehow or other escaped from that tune, which seemed to be themselves.
~ Unknown
A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be.
~ Unknown
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
~ Horace
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
~ Hosea Ballou
To be black is to be a dissident.
~ Howard Bryant
Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end in the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change. —TIMOTHY SNYDER, On Tyranny
~ Howard Bryant
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
~ Howard Mumford Jones
If you don't like my queer ways you can kiss my fucking ass
~ Unknown
Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.
~ Howard Schultz