#resistance

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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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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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. ↗

— Assata Shakur

#oppression #resistance #oppression