Quotes About Resistance

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

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.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

To die hating them, that was freedom

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.