Quotes about Resistance
The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.
- Chris Claremont
To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.
- Karl Barth
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
- William Faulkner
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
- Epictetus
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
- Malcolm X
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Satan gets disturbed -and defeated -when you decide to do more that be a Sunday-morning Christian.
- Jentezen Franklin