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Where there is power, there is resistance.
Michel Foucault
Opposition follows authority.
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Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful
Gautama Buddha
Adaptation is never distressing, only the opposition to modification is agonizing.
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[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
Bell Hooks
Constructing networks of solidarity, where we can draw solace from our shared experience.
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A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect
Vann R. Newkirk II
'A structure cannot neglect those it was never designed to support'
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Assata Shakur
Rebellion against tyranny.
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
Mahmoud Darwish
Every exquisite composition is an act of defiance.
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Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
Edward Said
Hominism is the ultimate safeguard against the unrighteous and oppressive deeds that have blighted human past.
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True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
Bell Hooks
Genuine opposition commences with individuals facing anguish... and striving to alter it.
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Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
Ulrike Meinhof
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Nikola Tesla
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Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
Ahmed Yassin
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I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
Paul Robeson
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The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
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Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Henry Highland Garnet
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Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."
John Daly
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The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.
Kyle Cease
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
Dan Millman
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Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
Julia Bacha
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony
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Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
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There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.
Khaled Mashal
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An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
Lisa Bonet
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I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Danny Glover
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I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Mindy Kaling
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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
Dennis Quaid
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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
Aldrich Ames
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The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
Hjalmar Schacht
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In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
Peter Zumthor
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Frederick Douglass
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We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
Leymah Gbowee
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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
Evo Morales
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Alain Badiou
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
Carl Jung
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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick
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The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.
Leonardo Boff
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Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
Eckhart Tolle
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Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
Dorothy West
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.
Arundhati Roy
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He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.
Aminu Kano
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
Ahmed Yassin
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Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place
Ulrike Meinhof
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Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.
Osamu Tezuka
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If anybody attacks us we will readjust and mobilise ourselves for action immediately. That will be the end of the ceasefire if it happens during the ceasefire period. If it happens after we have won the elections, naturally we will put up a resistance.
Robert Mugabe
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
Frederick Douglass