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Resistance Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty’s war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.”
Charles Lamb
2.
“A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.”
Alvin Toffler
3.
“Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.”
Alvin Toffler
4.
“One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.”
Plutarch
5.
“Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.”
Scott Adams
6.
“Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.”
Leonard Cohen
7.
“When we are resisting fear, we are identified with a fearful state.”
Tara Brach
8.
“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
Seneca
9.
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
Emile Zola
10.
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
Emile Zola
11.
“You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.”
Sophocles
12.
“They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.”
Alice Walker
13.
“Why should the killers of the world be “the future” and not us?”
Alice Walker
14.
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence – as it saves most writers who live in ‘interesting’ oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.”
Alice Walker
15.
“We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.”
Alice Walker
16.
“I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.”
Alice Walker
17.
“I don’t want you to fight ’em until you gits completely fagged so that you turns into a black cracker yourself! For then they bondage over you in complete.”
Alice Walker
18.
“Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
19.
“Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The Creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you – these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created.”
Sadhguru
20.
“Because your self-preservation instinct keeps telling you, “Unless you have walls you are not safe,” unconsciously you keep building them. Later, you struggle with them. This is an endless cycle. But creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation’s unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.”
Sadhguru
21.
“If you avoid any experience – whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy – it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. This is why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.”
Sadhguru
22.
“You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.”
Sadhguru
23.
“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”
Thomas Carlyle
24.
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
Thomas Carlyle
25.
“Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.”
Chuck Palahniuk
26.
“There will always be an underground.”
Chuck Palahniuk
27.
“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.”
Benjamin Disraeli
28.
“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”
Karl Marx
29.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
Karl Marx
30.
“If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.”
Karl Marx
31.
“America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.”
Henry Kissinger
32.
“When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.”
Francis Bacon
33.
“The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.”
Heraclitus
34.
“Hell is just resistance to life.”
Pema Chodron
35.
“The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.”
Pema Chodron
36.
“When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.”
Pema Chodron
37.
“You can’t grow strong without resistance.”
Rick Warren
38.
“I admit that the slave does sometimes sing, dance and appear to be merry. But what does this prove? It only proves to my mind, that though slavery is armed with a thousand stings, it is not able entirely to kill the elastic spirit of the bondman.”
Frederick Douglass
39.
“Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.”
Frederick Douglass
40.
“While I lived with my master in St. Michael’s, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael’s.”
Frederick Douglass
41.
“What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.”
Frederick Douglass
42.
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.”
Frederick Douglass
43.
“The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn’t want to get hold of me again. “No,” thought I, “you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.””
Frederick Douglass
44.
“The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.”
Frederick Douglass
45.
“Let us render the tyrant no aid.”
Frederick Douglass
46.
“Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.”
Frederick Douglass
47.
“I wanted to be another Nat Turner; and if I did not look out, I should get as many balls into me, as Nat did into him. Thus ended the infant Sabbath school, in the town of St. Michael’s.”
Frederick Douglass
48.
“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
Frederick Douglass
49.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
50.
“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.”
Frederick Douglass
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