Quotes about Defiance

Respect me, or put me to death.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!

Together they would brave satan and all his legions.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

I've had some good times, had some bad. Took some lumps. Scored some points. Half-way through life, at 43, I still say, 'go for broke.' No government, no FBI, no judge, no jailer is ever gonna make me say 'uncle.' Now, as then, let the game continue. I bet my stake on freedom's call; I'll play these cards with no regrets.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.