Resistance Quotes - Page 2

• Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

  Elia Suleiman

  Camaraderie, Living More

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

  Danny Glover

  Believe, Rights, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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• I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis for our agitation and our resistance and our complaints. I also discovered that while black Americans had a sense of the beauty and tragedy of the journey from the time of slavery until now, we were not rooted in the specifics. I thought one way to familiarize people with that history would be through the voices of the great folk artists.

  Harry Belafonte

  Struggle, Artist, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that resistance. I took part in the labor movement, in social movements, in the church community. I felt that it was the honorable thing to do and still do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Latin, America, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Stress, Mind, Peaceful Warrior

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Ordinary

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

  Frederick William Faber

  Temptation, Victory, Moments

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• I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

  Danny Glover

  Struggle, Trying, Small Places

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• Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Impossible, Offers, Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

  Lisa Bonet

  Mind, Body, Posing

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

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• I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Writing, Healing

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.20, Routledge

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Perseverance, Failure, Adversity

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• Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Persistence, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Aug 03, 2010

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• A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

  Vann R. Newkirk II

  Political, Justice Will Prevail, Social Justice

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• Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

  Chris Paine

  Obstacles, Resistance To Change, Biggest Obstacles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

  Steven Pressfield

  Positivity, Knights, Dragons

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• Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Soul, Important, Thumbs

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.12, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Failure, Goal

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• Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Divine Right, Divine Right Of Kings

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

  Adyashanti

  Paradox, Accepted, Disappear

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• Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Encouragement, Pain, Mean

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Energy, Proportion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Liars, Lying, People

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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