Quotes About Resistance

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Oppression --overwhelming control -- is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life.

Because the oppressor exists within their oppressed comrades, when they attack those comrades they are indirectly attacking the oppressor as well.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.

E que, quase sempre, num primeiro momento deste descobrimento, os oprimidos, em vez de buscar a libertação na luta e por ela, tendem a ser opressores também, ou subopressores. A estrutura do seu pensar se encontra condicionada pela contradição vivida na situação concreta, existencial, em que se "formam".

Aos esfarrapados do mundo e aos que neles se descobrem e, assim descobrindo-se, com eles sofrem, mas, sobretudo, com eles lutam.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.

It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

And for what Should I show my gratitude! Tyrant of my will o'erthrown,

shared witness against injustice could marshal triumphs that wars never could.

To pay better attention to the feeling of the Flow, it helps to merge into a rhythm of rocking and enjoying the phases of the life's creative cycles. Perhaps the experience of Flow has something to do with taking the path of least resistance. By this, I don't mean the lazy way, but the path that is inviting you, the path that already feels like it has your kind of frequency and momentum

And they used to have cross burnin's a lot more and family picnics and softball games and all such,' said Donald. 'I remember eatin' cake next to that glowing cross. I loved my mama's cake.' 'Yeah,' several voiced their agreement. 'We don't do nothin' now,' a man complained. 'I don't even know where my hood is. I don't even own a rope.

He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.

Men of England, wherefore plowFor the lords who lay ye low?

How much longer will man continue to pimp for the gluttony of death, his most insidious, implacable, and eternal foe?

In your life, I hope you will never oppress the Weak, that you will oppose Human Bondage in all its guises, that you will bend your Knee to no man.

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

I tell people I was in the U.S. Army for three and a half years in WWII -- but what did I mainly do to beat the fascists? Play the banjo.