Quotes About Resistance

The era of resisting big government is never over.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.