626 Quotes About Resistance

I don’t imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there—small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.

It is so easy to have principles. Far, far harder to live by them.

nonviolent action succeeds twice as often as violent means, in a third of the amount of time, and with a fraction of the casualties.

Resistance is singing your grandmother's songs so the next generation will know them.

If you don't challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with.

Roots, he wrote, symbolize more than underground strong-arms. Roots are also origins, the tendrils of a sprouting seed that give rise to life.

Without Love, humanity dies of thirst, grasps at riches, destroys the earth through insatiable greed. Without Love, we are walking dust, dead matter stumbling from the dawn of birth to the dusk of death. Without Love, our Earth is stripped of beingness, left barren and lifeless, a pile of rocks and resources, objects to possess and control. Without Love, humanity sleepwalks as automatons, controlled, manipulated, and shoved through a nightmarish existence.

Resistance is more than a battle; it is the indomitable presence of life against forces of destruction.

Life wants to live, but more than that, it wants to love.