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Quotes About Resistance

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.
~ Harry Blamires
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
~ Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
~ Audre Lorde
Im sick of making bloody history.
~ Patrick Rafter
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.
~ Jonathan Chait
The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.
~ Tariq Ali
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring
~ Natan Sharansky
All revolutions in history have obstacles.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.
~ Neil Young
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
~ Ricardo Salinas Pliego
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
~ Jacob M. Appel
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
~ George Orwell
We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
~ Ahmed Yassin
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
~ James Larkin
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
~ James A. Garfield
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
~ Bob Goodlatte