Sunday, November 20, 2016 – Inevitable Resistance
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
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
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. ~ Steven Pressfield
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~ Woodrow Wilson
At fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. ~ Maya Angelou
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. ~ Carl Jung
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. ~ Christopher Hitchens
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
I don’t believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life’s inspiration: passive resistance. I don’t want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ~ John Lydon
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ~ John Ruskin
Power is never so overwhelming that there’s no room for resistance. ~ Henry Giroux
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ~ Thomas Paine
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. ~ Paul Robeson
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ~ James Weldon Johnson
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. ~ Salvatore Quasimodo
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. ~ Mason Cooley
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
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It’s been hard to say why. What I’ve learned from women’s experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ~ Catharine A. MacKinnon
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ~ Malcolm X
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ~ Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. ~ Assata Shakur
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ~ Susan Sontag
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ~ Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once. ~ Virginia Woolf
Let us seek the respite where it is—in the very thick of battle. For in my opinion, and this is where I shall close, it is there. Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own suffering and joys, builds for all. ~ Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. ~ Bill Maher
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