Quotes About Resistance

Her mind flashed odd images—sharks swimming toward her, cars careening out of control in her path, fangs sinking into her skin, shadowy wings curling around her in a caress. Somewhere in her mind she knew she needed to step away from him, but she didn't, couldn't. She'd felt the same way when she'd first seen him: like she'd follow him wherever he wanted. It wasn't a feeling she liked. Irial

Donna say no. If you are, do it now and leave me alone. I can't take this, Maggie. You're killing me by small degrees.

Battle For The Mind by William Sargent.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.

Oscar Wilde summoned his last measure of strength to say, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.

We must protect the girls," Mrs. Kroehne said. "You understand." I do understand. I am a contaminant and must be kept silent. It has been three months since my baby was born, three months since I walked away from my baby with milk dripping from my breasts. I will not say this to any of these young people during my time among them. I will construct careful lies and memorize them to explain myself, my dark inward life, my hunger for love, my tough resistance to trust.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Don't sit there and take the punch. Punch back this world has cruel jokes You have to be ready for whatever it will throw at you.

Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

O que fizeram esses brancos foi ocuparem-nos.Não foi só a terra: ocuparam-nos a nós,acamparam no meio das nossas cabeças.Somos madeira que apanhou chuva.Agora não acendemos nem damos sombra.Temos que secar à luz de um sol que ainda não há.Esse sol só pode nascer dentro de nós.

For this war was not made to take you away from your country, but to take your country away from within you.

Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.

Matar o patrão? Mais difícil é matar o escravo dentro de nós.

But many, perhaps most, did resist, and resistance assumed many forms, covert and overt, sporadic and continuous, direct and indirect. It is probably a mistake to think of resistance as a continuum, ranging from "sassing massa" in the lower register to becoming maroons and organizing revolution in the highest. First of all, individuals who experienced any substantial length of life may have made any number of decisions, and over time they would have exhibited various

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

neocolonization.

the way to fight Babylon was through music.

A coalition of disgruntled Mattachine members, along with lesbians and gay men who identified with the pro–Black Power, antiwar New Left, called for a meeting on July 24, 1969. The flyer announcing the meeting was headlined, "Do you think homosexuals are revolting? You bet your sweet ass we are." This

fought, it was usually more trouble than it was

The serpent hated the light and knew he had no power to hurt it, except through its creatures.

You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.

He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.

Don't they see it? Can't they recognize the temptation?

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?