Resistance Quotes

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

“It is this silent refusal to be visible that keeps us invisible.”

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

“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

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

“The system concedes nothing without demand.”

“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.”

“For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture... is an act of resistance.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Our orchestra was red.”

“We consider all the occupiers of Iraq to be our enemies, and we will confront them with all the means that are available to us.”

“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.”

“We will not give up a single inch of Palestine, from the river to the sea.”