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Quotes About Resistance

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
~ Oswald Chambers
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
~ Rob Bell
Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.
~ Delores Phillips
Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
~ Jessica Hahn
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
~ Jessica Hahn
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
~ John F. Kennedy
Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
~ Enid Blyton
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
~ Bertolt Brecht
It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.
~ Roger Mooking
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
~ Bob Woodward
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.
~ Jane Goodall
I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.
~ Marilyn Wallace
Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?
~ Richelle Mead
Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line.
~ Caris Roane
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.
~ Nelson Mandela
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.
~ Emiliano Zapata
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
Government is waging war against the people.
~ L. Neil Smith
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
~ Émile Zola
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
~ Helen Prejean