626 Quotes About Resistance

For enslaved people who had spent their entire lives under the shadow of the whip, without any military training of experience with guns, to one day pick up a firearm or a machete or even a rock and oppose a superior force must have taken an extraordinary level of nerve. The thirst for liberty was powerful enough to overcome even the fear of probable death.

We should be able to stand up for our ideals and not get struck down. We should be able to protest in our streets without the need for armed protection. A world of life, liberty, and love should be allowed to blossom in our towns and cities.

86%if the powerful outlaw life; if they ban love, if they constrict liberty with unjust laws . . . then the dandelions must leap up in defiance, in numbers too vast to suppress, with persistence too determined to stop. And why should they wait for violent means to achieve such a goal, when they could embody that world today?

Wealth or no wealth, you can't keep someone else under your feet forever. False love doesn't care about the environment.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

The greater the man, the stronger the resistance.

In Bell's view resistance was essential. He believed significant progress, if it ever came, would emerge from the ground up, assisted by a recognition by white people that black advancement served their own interests. "History gets made through confrontation. Nothing gets done without pushing.

my spine is a column of fistswhich must mean I am a riot

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.