Quotes About Resistance

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE.

I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

The truth is, that MOST of the time MOST of us take the road MOST traveled, the path of least resistance and MOST comfortable.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Even on the saddest nightin times of servitudethere is always someone who resiststhere is always someone who says no.

The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.

The more you resist, the stronger you get.

The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.

Lauren Oliver, Requiem

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

Stay positive. When you resist change, you are trying too hard to control the outcome and not paying enough attention to the process.

Fear, in its many guises, is here to test you. Surrendering to fear only limits you and makes your path more difficult. Know that fear is an illusion and a trickster and that there are tools to help you resist it.

there is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences.

S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.

What about the duty to protest? What Mark was doing is as old as Thoreau. Civil disobedience is as American as—killing Indians!" His father smiled, just the smallest curving of his mouth. "That answers itself, Son.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.

It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know." She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it.

If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.

Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.

The only task he concentrated on, day by day, was keeping himself and his family alive. He knew the Nazis' goal: extermination. The only dignity he had left was in his ability to resist. On

everybody is trying to swallow something that won't go down

To roughly paraphrase Paul, why do I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do?