Resistance Quotes

"What you resist, persists" "The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it." "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule" "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force to take away his life" "The hardest thing is to sit down and write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance." "Resistance has no strength of its own. Ever see an ogre blow out an empty paper bag?" "Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work." "Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it." "At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." "To die hating them, that was freedom." "Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist." "The tendency to socialize is primitive and for this reason progress finds a degree of acceptance on all sides and is not met with as much opposition as formerly." "Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself" "To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor" "What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size" "I'm just a problem that doesn't want to be solved" "There is no moral obligation to accept oppression, humiliation, and exclusion as our lot in life" "I can’t take the pressure of the unknown future, I refuse"