Fighting Back Quotes

• When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Fighting, Hard Times

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life

  Adnan

  Cancer, Bad Day, Fighting

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• We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, Wind, Persist

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is, "Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." We've been trying to do that for a long time, and now the Earth is fighting back. I'm not sure that we're going to survive as a species.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Fighting, Garden

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We are being wiped off the face of this earth
  At an extremely alarming rate
  And even more alarming is the fact
  That we are not fighting back

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Earth, Faces

  Song: Words of Wisdom, Album: 2Pacalypse Now

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• If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

  Molly Crabapple

  Smart, Fighting, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 6, 2008.

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• God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is.

  Paul Farmer

  Fighting, Giving, Suffering

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2003.

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• Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

  Jonathan Chait

  Mean, Fighting, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, People, Imagination

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things.

  Michel Martin

  Fighting, Engagement, Dodd Frank

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

  Tupac Shakur

  Honesty, Rap, Fighting

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• Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Love You, Fighting

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• The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Athlete, Fighting

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• I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Jobs, Fun, Believe

  "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World". Book by Andrew Breitbart, 2011.

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• Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

  Maxine Waters

  Fighting, Thinking, Color

  "Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Lynching, Self

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• Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Class, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings.

  Craig Kilborn

  Summer, Nice, Reading

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• What happened in my personal life affected my career too. I am not perfect and I have made a lot of mistakes. Being an entrepreneur is incredibly lonely. There were many hurdles along the way. From starting out, to making it, and almost losing it, to fighting back, to nearly losing it all again. There have been extreme highs and extreme lows.

  Michelle Mone

  Lonely, Mistake, Fighting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Fighting, Love Is

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.68, Penguin

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• The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

  Katy Perry

  Taken, Fighting, Media

  "Katy Perry: Confessions of a Pop Princess" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 20, 2012.

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