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• The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.

  Liu Xia

  Motivational, Hate, Humility

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• Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Cost, Literature, Management

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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  Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Movement, Friction

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.30, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

  Pema Chodron

  Long, Alive, Circumstances

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, People, Abuse

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, Racism, Historical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Believe, Hero

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.502, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

  William Hazlitt

  Perseverance, Passion, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.62

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• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

  Questlove

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Taken, Heart, Technological Change

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• Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

  David L. Ulin

  Reading, Landscape, Distraction

  "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

  Stephen King

  Might, Given, Altered

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Recognition, Revolutionary, Obedience

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, but basically to label it as anarchy and to repress it with the most violent, in the most violent means possible. I mean, that's essentially an element of neofascism. That's not about democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Democracy, Labels

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

  Susan Sontag

  Struggle, Community, Resonance

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.244, Macmillan

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• You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

  Utah Phillips

  Inspirational, Nature, Cutting

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

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• The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Commitment, Writing

  Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

  Bell Hooks

  Uprising, Space, May

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.29, Routledge

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• By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

  Hal Elrod

  Letting Go, Pain, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 13, 2009

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• Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

  Tuvia Bielski

  Death, Revenge, Freedom

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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