Quotes About Resistance

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.