Resistance Quotes - Page 31

• Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Noble, Unjust

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Opposites, Two

  "Stride Toward Freedom". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., November 30, 1957.

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• By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Struggle, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.

  Robert Higgs

  Real, War, Class

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• I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

  Cheech Marin

  Cards, Movement, Trouble

  "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Effort, Everyday

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

  Dave McGinnis

  Military, Believe, Responsibility

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• The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

  Jean Grou

  Reality, Suffering, Trials

  Jean Nicolas Grou (1881). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist. From the Fr. of J.N. Grou, ed. by W.H. Hutchings”

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• A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

  Albert Hadley

  Jobs, Attitude, Thinking

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• It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Looks, Lines

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Enemy, Done

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.48, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

  Tim Robbins

  War, Iraq, Cost

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• New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

  David Lange

  Military, War, Exercise

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Black, Separation

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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• Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

  John Henry Newman

  Moving, Heart, Animal

  "Parochial and Plain Sermons".

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• I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

  Yelena Bonner

  War, Rights, Effort

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• Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

  Janet Malcolm

  Heart, Giving, Novelists

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.70, Vintage

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• Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.

  Kameron Hurley

  War, Men, Sea

  Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

  Mary Pipher

  Intelligent, Self, Alive

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.37, Penguin

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• But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

  Wayne White

  Reconstruction, Term, Magnitude

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• If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Trying, Denial

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Public Opinion, Despotism

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.66, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Shining, Example, Modern

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