Resistance quotes

Page 1

◆ If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

- Malcolm X100

◆ If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

- Ghassan Kanafani99

◆ Resistance is common to the unusual.

- Toba Beta99

◆ Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ To experience what isn't, love what is.

- Eric Micha'el Leventhal99

◆ They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

- N. Scott Momaday99

◆ Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

- Michel Foucault99

◆ While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

- Jim Norton99

◆ Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

- Donald Miller99

◆ I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

- Diet Eman99

◆ Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

- Criss Jami99

◆ We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

- Tiffany Madison99

◆ And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

- Tim Wise99

◆ What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.

- Lierre Keith99

◆ Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

- Leon Uris99