Resist
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To
the wrongs that need resistance, To the right
that needs assistance, To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
-- Carrie Chapman
Catt
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"Resistance
is feasible even for those who are not heroes
by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe,
for those who fear the consequences and detest
the reality of the attempt to impose American
hegemony.
-- Noam Chomsky
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"Be
not discouraged. There is a future for you. . .
. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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-- Frederick Douglass |
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“An
unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest
for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence
says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence
but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the
law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and
imprisonment.”
-- Mohandas K.
Gandhi
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Evil
(ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance
of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot
cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it,
stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other
form of emotional or physical resistance. In order
to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light
on it.
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The
progressive movement against the war of occupation
in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance
to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those
are moments that we have to celebrate: that people
still find the resolve and energy to resist.
-- Danny Glover
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An
invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea
whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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It
is from the numberless diverse acts of courage
and belief that human history is shaped. Each
time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve
the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of
energy and daring, those ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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"The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks
to reconcile the truths of two opposites - acquiescence
and violence - while avoiding the extremes and
immoralities of both. The nonviolent resister
agress with the person who acquisces that one
should not be physically agressive toward his
opponent; but he balances the equation by agreeing
with the person of violence that evil must be
resisted. He avoids the nonresistance of the former
and the violent resistance of the latter. With
nonviolent resistance, no invidual or group need
to submit to any wrong, nor need anyone resort
to violence in order to right a wrong."
-- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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The
students I've been with these twenty years are
looking for a world where it becomes a little
easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where
learning nonviolence means that we dedicate
our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment
that the force of love, the force of truth,
the force of justice, and the force of organized
resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane
and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs
insane.
-- Colman McCarthy
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Our
resistance to this war should be our resistance
to profit at the cost of human life. Because that
is what these drums beating over Iraq are really
about. This is about business.
-- Tim Robbins
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Any
classification according to a singular identity
polarizes people in a particular way, but if we
take note of the fact that we have many different
identities - related not just to religion but
also to language, occupation and business, politics,
class and poverty, and many others - we can see
that the polarization of one can be resisted by
a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding
are extremely important to fight against singular
polarization.
-- Amartya
Sen
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It's
up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and
resist.
-- Cindy Sheehan
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“Only
the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent
can resist change.”
-- Socrates
Hence
to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme
excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's
resistance without fighting.
-- Sun Tzu
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