Quotes about Opposition

This grew until it culminated in the Pharaoh who was confronted by Moses. When the hebrew leader came before the king with a message from "Jehovah, God of Israel," it was not ignorance of the true God, but defiance of his power, that prompted the answer, "Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice? ...I know not Jehovah." From first to last, Pharaoh's opposition to the divine command was not the result of ignorance, but of hatred and defiance.

I know that nothing strengthens community like a common enemy. I know that when religious people are feeling overwhelmed by a world with little use for their ancient truths, they can find new meaning by identifying a great evil to oppose.

As a fast player, I want to receive the ball facing the opposition goal, which gives me more vision.

I have haters. I have so many haters.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

No wonder the rulers of this age want to stop the singing, or pollute it with ideology and managed slogans!

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

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Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

It seems to me that this is the method that must guide the actions of the Negro in the present crisis in race relations. Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. The Negro must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as a citizen, but he must not use inferior methods to gain it. He must never come to terms with falsehood, malice, hate, or destruction.

If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.