Quotes About Resistance

Without temptation what value is virtue?

I can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.

The record collection or magazine or newspaper might reveal some clue to a social movement or trend or fashion or sensibility which defies their moronic stranglehold on consciousness. A burp of resistance. A clue to a way out. A signal that life doesn't actually depend on high-speed Internet access. And the physicality of the item infers that things meant something once, that everything wasn't always a meaningless, equivocal post on Tumblr.

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about

Often he declined invitations, because to accept meant that he had to dust off his brogues, iron a shirt, brush down his best suit, take a bath, and splash on some cologne. He had also to be affable, to drink and be merry, to talk to strangers with whom he had no inclination to talk and with whom he was not being paid to talk. In other words, he resented having to play the part of a normal human animal.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

From the time I made my first recording in 1983, I was already telling cats like Spike, "Nah, I ain't hitting that lick." I was already sliding away from it. Then, after nearly losing my life in the car crash, I really couldn't

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

El poder de Alá: sin sonido, sin forma; pero cuando se manifiesta, nadie puede resistírsele.

Dicho del Profeta Lucha El guerrero santo es aquél que lucha consigo mismo.

La mayoría de las personas, más allá de sus opiniones y protestas, no quieren aprender.

Dijo el rayo al roble: "¡Apártate o aguanta lo que te viene!

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

For every Pharaoh there is a Moses.

Es propio del enemigo enflaquecerse y perder ánimo, dando huida sus tentaciones, cuando la persona que se ejercita en las cosas espirituales pone mucho rostro contra las tentaciones del enemigo. Cuando el enemigo de natura humana trae sus astucias y suasiones a la ánima justa, quiere y desea que sean recibidas y tenidas en secreto.

Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.