626 Quotes About Resistance

  • Author Michael Pollan
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    Resistance is essentially a form of coevolution that occurs when a given population is threatened with extinction.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    * Where there is power, there is resistance.- Michel Foucault* Sunrise and sunset and such other subjects carry such power that neither acknowledges nor recognizes the resistance, which can resist that.- Ehsan Sehgal

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  • Author ناصر الظفيري
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    سقط شهيدٌ لجارتنا. توقّعتُ أن تبكي عليه، أن تتوسّل العساكر العرب أن يُبقوه لها، أن تمزّق ثيابها. كانت تزغرد في الشارع، وتشير إلى الانتفاخ المستدير في بطنها. تصرخُ: هنا ثأره، هنا ثأره. وانزوَتْ في مكانٍ بعيد حتى يأتيها المخاض

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  • Author Helen S. Rosenau
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    Russian Dolls: One way or another, your job is to peel back the layers until you find that littlest doll. You might hit big resistance, or discover that the wall you fear is only made of tissue

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  • Author Delores Williams
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    Faith has taught me to see the miraculous in everyday life: the miracle of ordinary black women resisting and rising about evil forces in society, where forces work to destroy and subvert the creative power and energy my mother and grandmother taught me God gave black women.

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  • Author Barbara Kingsolver
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    In our darkest hours we may find comfort in the age-old slogan from the resistance movement, declaring that we shall not be moved. But we need to finish that sentence. Moved from where? Are we anchoring to the best of what we've believed in, throughout our history, or merely to an angry new mode of self-preservation? The American moral high ground can't possibly be an isolated mountaintop from which we refuse to learn anything at all to protect ourselves from monstrous losses.

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  • Author Jason Fry
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    The Resistance astromechs classified Black One as a high-communications-volume interface. BB-8 searched his memory for an organic equivalent of that classification, and found a high-confidence answer almost immediately.Black One was a pain in the ass.

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