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Resistance Quotes

"I can resist everything except temptation"
Mae West
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder"
George Washington
"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change"
Socrates
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
Elbert Hubbard
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"
Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"
Thomas Jefferson
"Every generation needs a new revolution"
Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong"
Mahatma Gandhi
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it"
Jane Austen
"A man who won’t listen can’t hear"
George R.R. Martin
"In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility"
Nelson Mandela
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"
Victor Hugo
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common"
John Locke
"The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption"
Paulo Freire
"All oppression creates a state of war"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will"
Frederick Douglass
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress"
Frederick Douglass
"Resist much, obey little"
Walt Whitman
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