Quotes About Resistance

The grave plight of the people compels them to resist to the death the stinking policies of the gangsters that rule our country….

women had not weakened in their resolve to resist.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire.

The lesson I took away from the campaign was that in the end, we had no alternative to armed and violent resistance. Over and over again, we had used all the nonviolent weapons in our arsenal—speeches, deputations, threats, marches, strikes, stay-aways, voluntary imprisonment—all to no avail,

apartheid turned many otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals.

it is always the oppressor, not the oppressed, who dictates the form of the struggle.

If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Instead, the state marched over us.

Un luchador por la libertad aprende, por el camino más duro, que es el opresor el que define la naturaleza de la lucha.

A detachment of police confronted this army of earnest schoolchildren and without warning opened fire, killing thirteen-year-old Hector Pieterson and many others. The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death

Recordé a todos, una y otra vez, que la lucha por la liberación no había sido una batalla contra otros grupos u otros colores de piel, sino contra un sistema represivo.

This was one of the state's most barbarous techniques of applying pressure: imprisoning the wives and children of freedom fighters. Many men in prison were able to handle anything the authorities did to them, but the thought of the state doing the same thing to their families was almost impossible to bear.

Bojovník za svobodu bolestn? zjiš?uje, že zp?sob boje ur?uje utla?ovatel a že utla?ovanému ?asto nezbývá než se uchýlit k týmž metodám, jaké používá utla?ovatel. V ur?ité chvíli zkrátka musíte nep?íteli oplatit stejnou mincí.

there was not a single act of violence on our side. The discipline of our resisters was exemplary.

made a point of sitting in a Whites Only chair in the Whites Only waiting room.

When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they had no choice, that "the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Ha! Satan, you're a liar!

To passively surrender to appearances and bow before the evidence of facts is to confess that Christ is not yet born in you.

The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn't give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.

in the end tyranny will always destroy itself as long as good men and women stand against it.

Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard. The physical violence of the battlefield was followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. But where the former was visibly brutal, the latter was visibly gentle … The bullet was the means of physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.

Hay una gran belleza en el hombre vestido de percal y calzado con sandalias, sin más armas que un bastón para andar y su credo de la no violencia, que se enfrenta al poderoso imperio británico, ¿no