Quotes About Resistance

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.

Hey, mister, I don't think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.

When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that's wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!

If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.

Fight fire with fire.