Resistance Making Quotes

“We can learn from the grass,
tiny fragile blades that somehow manage
to push through the cracks
in the cement of
the sidewalk.

We can learn from water, wearing down
mountains
into sand,
from little droplets becoming floods,
oceans,
tidal waves.

We can learn from all upheavals from struggles for justice
because they only seem inevitable in hindsight--
while they are happening they feel grueling
if not impossible.

We can learn from Elie Wiesel, who
shared his bread in the concentration camp so more people
could eat some
instead of hording it so he
could eat fully.”
― Shellen Lubin

“We cannot become the worst version of ourselves
in our attempts at resistance.
We must resist,
as we do,
with all the strength and persistence in us, but also
with all the grace, empathy, and humility we
can muster.

It is the only way we can save not just the country
but our selves.”
― Shellen Lubin