Resistance Quotes

“Let us be content to rust in peace, and not polish our fetters.”

“I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of it.”

“The system concedes nothing without demand.”

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”

“Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.”

“We maintain that the organization of the illegal, armed resistance is the correct answer to the state’s terror.”

“If Virginia surrenders on this issue, she will go down in history as an example of supine submission.”

“We were not just spies; we were anti-fascist fighters.”

“I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

“They would have to drag me out of here. This is where I am and where I will stay.”

“The oppressor must be harassed until his doom. He must have no peace.”

“Authority is the parent of resistance.”

“If we must die, we die defending our rights.”

“I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.”

“Our orchestra was red.”

“Marginality is not a site of deprivation, but rather a site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”

“If you're resistant to going after your dreams, you're resistant because you've been discouraged.”

“The new idea is always judged by the old idea.”

“The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. We've been saying 'freedom' for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we're gonna start saying now is 'Black Power!'”

“A tactic insinuates itself into the other’s place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance.”