Quotes About Resistance

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Pushing away doesn't cause things to come together, all it causes is for things to be pushed away.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

I have my heart set on being unhappy so dont try and change my mind.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

She took a little pleasure in defying him. And it was a harmless defiance, especially if he didn't know she was here.

They looked at each other in dismay, and she knew just what he was thinking. He wanted her gone, but he needed her. She wanted to help, but she wanted to do it wearing britches. Neither of them had a hope of getting what they wanted.

Marry her? Do I look crazy?" "There ain't enough 'ruin' in this world to make me marry him.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

White men invented whiskey and brought it to America. They manufacture, advertise, and sell it to us. They make the profit on it and cause the conditions that make Indians drink in the first place.

Thus it happened that the great-grandsons of Yellow Hair, Custer, were counting coup on the Blue Coats of 1973. For

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Don't sell your land, don't sell Grandmother Earth to the strip-mining outfits and the uranium companies. Don't sell your water." That kind of advice is a threat to the system and gets you into the penitentiary.

The fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years. Once the land is gone, then we are gone too.

The men who had brought us whiskey and the smallpox had come with the cross in one hand and the gun in the other.

You must kill the Indian in order to save the man! " That was part of trying to escape the hard life. The missions, going to church, dressing and behaving like a wasi?un—that for her was the key which would magically unlock the door leading to the good life, the white life with a white-painted cottage, and a carpet on the floor, a shiny car in the garage, and an industrious, necktie-wearing husband who was not a wino.

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.

He could silence the devil with a whisper.

My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.

Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.

Sobald wir Angst davor haben, uns für etwas einzusetzen, haben Gewalt und Willkür schon gewonnen.