Resisting Quotes - Page 12

• It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

  Kellyanne Conway

  People, Want, Shame

  "Donald Trump’s campaign manager has no clue what a press conference is". www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I thought, I'm just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Morning, Coffee, Giving

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Muse

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, People, Complaining

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Uncles, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• [I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Panic, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

  Noam Chomsky

  Evil, Use, Facts

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Want, Moral

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Teaching, Destiny

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Effort, Might, Worthwhile

  Source: progressive.org

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• Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Police, Soldier, Prison

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation coming from the West." And internally, it's unsettling the whole situation. Now in Tunisian, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, the clash between the literalists and - the Islamists or the reformists is something which is going to be part of what we have to deal with as to the future of America.

  Tariq Ramadan

  America, Egypt, West

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