Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Resistance Quotes
DesperationOppressionPower StrugglesResistance People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
EmpowermentEqualityFeminismMoralityResistance If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
InevitabilityInnovationOwnershipResistanceTransformation The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
Anti-WarPacifismPeaceResistance I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
InertiaProgressResistance The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Human RightsLegal SegregationMoral UnityOppressionResistance In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
ActionCourageFreedomResistanceThinking Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
ConscienceHuman RightsReligious FreedomResistance I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
FreedomOppressionResistance Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
CourageNationalismPatriotismResistanceStruggle The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists who had battened on aggression and pillage, was, in fact, a hard fight that could be likened to a bare-handed man versus brigandish robbers.
AdvocacyEmpowermentEqualityJusticeResistance It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.
ResistanceStagnation A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
CreativityHuman PotentialInnovationResistanceSkepticism The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Cultural IndependenceRacial IdentityResistanceSegregationSocial Justice We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
DeterminationMotivationPerseveranceResistance If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.
EmpowermentFreedomHeritageIdentityResistance Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
AntibioticsControlHealthResistanceResponsibility Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
DeterminationInnovationPerseveranceResistanceTriumph First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
AutonomyLibertyResistance Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Authority vs PublicConflictPublic WillResistanceSocietal Dynamics I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
FreedomGovernanceLibertyPowerResistance Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
CourageFreedom of SpeechInjusticeRebellionResistance For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
CourageDignityFreedomResistance I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees! (*often attributed to Washington, but cannot be confirmed).
ControlIndividualityLibertyObedienceResistance Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
CourageIndependenceNonconformityResistance It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Mental StrengthOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceResistanceSelf-Confidence 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'
DefianceRebellionResistance What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
