Quotes about Resistance
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
— Audre Lorde
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
— Frederick Douglass
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.
— George W. Bush
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
— William Hazlitt
When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
— Pema Chodron
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
— CS Lewis
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.