Quotes About Resistance

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.

The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

When I was making a comeback we were talking to Roy Jones but he wasn't having any of it.

There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to use force to make the people conform.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

I just don't conform very well.

You can never conquer us, we will die first.

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.