Resistance Quotes - Page 20

• In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people.

  Bill Moyers

  Party, Class, Two

  Source: progressive.org

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• Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.

  Murray Bookchin

  Moving, Together, Groups

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after.

  Eve Ensler

  Brother, Two, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't really believe in cardio. I train with a very high intensity, which in turn gives it an aerobic effect. I like to use anaerobic resistance type movements or exercises. I don't believe in sitting on a Stairmaster or a bike for hours, that's just not me.

  Kai Greene

  Believe, Exercise, Giving

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

  Bill Ayers

  Simple, People, Black

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. My mother lived through that tyranny and made her living as a domestic worker. She was uneducated but she brought high principles and decent values into our existence, and she set lofty goals for herself and for her children. We were forever inspired by her strength and by her resistance to racism and to fascism.

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Leader, Political, Faces

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Comfort, Necessary Change, Results

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Obamacare, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

  Arundhati Roy

  Violence, States, Wells

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to be this downer Cassandra person in saying that without dismantling this horrific legislative apparatus that has basically given George W. Bush dictatorial power, the spirit of America is not enough. We have to have that spirit, but we have to have tactics and strategies and a movement and a victory.

  Naomi Wolf

  Believe, Winning, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Principles, Tactics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Giving, Tree

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Heart, Past

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Political, Intellectual

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.

  Max Lucado

  Finals, Generations, World

  Source: sojo.net

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• If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around. My hope is that the Democrats will realize where their power lies, and will start taking their cues from the people on the ground and not the other way.

  Reza Aslan

  Lying, People, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

  Mark Twain

  Anxiety, Mastery, Panic

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• Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Political, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Photography, Art, Wall

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• You can't grow strong without resistance.

  Rick Warren

  Strong, Grows

  Twitter post from Mar 05, 2011

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• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Religion, Atheism

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

  Joseph Story

  Gun, Tyrants, People

  Joseph Story (1865). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers”, p.264

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• I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

  Pol Pot

  Gun, People, Savages

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Kindness, Distance, Needs

  George Linnaeus Banks (1853). “Pearls from the Belfry: Lyrics”, p.30

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