Resistence Quotes

“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht: July 1916–October 1918

“When you keep hitting walls of resistance in life, the universe is trying to tell you that you are going the wrong way. It's like driving a bumper car at an amusement park. Each time you slam into another car or the edge of the track, you are forced to change direction.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a generous, subversive, and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues, and and hip-hop to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, and the citywide tradition of red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and food and traditions and sexuality and liberation.”
― Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

“Beware of those who step in the path of your dreams. They only dream to have the ability to take half your steps.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It's like an addiction, one I battle every day. It appeared at first drink. I was becoming the very thing I feared---my father's son. I wanted to be as far away from that Threshold as possible. I swore I'd never take another sip, no matter how crazy it made me. No matter how much it called to me. Resisting became easier with time.”
― Sara Ella, Unblemished

“What do you resist examining up close?
How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“I’m in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that’s not even good pornography.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Fear is the bane of all creatures that bubbles inside us forming rocks of resistence, sucking away all will power to act, think or speak.”
― Isabella Poretsis

“Focusing on the distance brings resistance but these steps of brevity feel heavenly & somehow still lead to a life of longevity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion

“Don't fight against negative emotions-It’s exhausting. Try to embrace them instead.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Bad Kitty. That's what Charlie said. I bite my lip hard enouth to draw blood and savor the metallic taste in my mouth.
If Charlie wants to think of me as just another pussy, he's dead wrong. Because I'm going to be the one cat that has more than nine lives.”
― Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Firsts

“Resistence comes out of personal frustration
and failure. Nothing else.”
― Petra Hermans

“Resistence is a result
of personal frustration and failure.”
― Petra Hermans

“Resistence won't work, because it is
no free energy, at all."
Petra Hermans
September 26, 2016”
― Petra Hermans

“You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“It is not revolution we need, another turn of the same wheel along the same path, it is resistance.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Ama okuduktan sonra, aklını kaçırmış olmadığını eskiden daha iyi anlamıştı. İnsanın azınlıkta olması, tek kişilik bir azınlık olması bile, deli olduğu anlamına gelmiyordu. Bir doğru vardı, bir de doğru olmayan; doğruya sarıldığın zaman, tüm dünyayı karşına bile alsan, deli olmuyordun.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What does it matter if I’m afraid? Paris is waiting for her freedom, and she’ll need all the help she can get to find it. Fear doesn’t get to go down with us. Not tonight.”
― Kristy Cambron, The Paris Dressmaker: A Novel of WWII

“What if greatness only happens when we're together, when we don't let them pull us apart?”
― Jael Richardson, Gutter Child

“To whomever is expressing that resistance do please explain briefly the intention of the benefits from the exercise, then add: “are you willing to give it a try?”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Perseverance is resolve forged in the fire of relentless resistance.”
― Farshad Asl