626 Quotes About Resistance

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effort to "outlaw" social injury powerfully legitimizes law and the state as appropriate protectors against injury and casts injured individuals as needing such protection by such protectors.

This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?

بنودالطموحأُحصي بنودَ طُموحي:أن أشربَ الشايَ فجرًا, وأستقلَّ المدينهْإلى كنوزي الدفينهْوأن أُراسلَ مَنْ خَفْفَتْ علّي جروحيحتى أحقَّقَ هذا, أحتاجُ - أوَّلَ شيءٍ - إلى مدينةِ روحي :وقْتٌ , وأرضٌ أمينهْماذا؟ أهذا كثيرٌ ؟ وأنّني غير قانعْ؟من أجل شايً وفجْرٍ ودفترٍ وطوابعْ لا بدَّ لي من قلاعٍ،وعسكرٍ،و مدافعْلا بدَّ من أن أدافعْ.

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Passive resistance is better than active acts of stupidity.

The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of presumed supremacy, but at power and its social and physical infrastructure. To find weak points within scriptures and structures of the system, as one might examine an old block wall before demolition, seeking out crumbling mortar lines and cracked blocks. Then, to strike, and recruit more help - more and more - and strike, and strike, and bring it down.

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.