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We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at the humanity of select groups is to chip away at humanity itself.

We never questioned the government, ma'am." -Guard "That was your problem." -Melanie Adams

We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.

We should be able to stand up for our ideals and not get struck down. We should be able to protest in our streets without the need for armed protection. A world of life, liberty, and love should be allowed to blossom in our towns and cities.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The light is breaking through. So listen to the weirdos. Listen to the voices crying from the wilderness. They are pointing us to a new King and a better kingdom.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

What is a movement, after all, but the embodiment of aspirations turned into organized action by thousands and millions of people?

When do things change entirely you wonder? When do they get better? When will it be possible? It is possible now. You are built to open your fists and show me your palms and to pass food from them into the hands of others. You are built for comfort and for fire, for battle and for poetry and you are a child of my family and my family was made by the world. Here we stand in the dark now and I am old and you are holding my hand and walking me from the bed to the window. We are looking out at all of it, the wonder and the danger. There are voices and the sun blazes and everything is bright enough that if I were reading the letters on your skin, I wouldn’t be able to parse them. Now look at your own hand and the wrinkles in them. Those wrinkles are what happens when you clinch your fists. You were born for this resistance, for this preparation, for this life. You were born to fight.

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?

When charisma and intelligence joined hands with compassion, the result was dangerous to greed, destruction, and cruelty.

What we resist, will persist.

When there is a grand cause to be won, he said, sometimes, there are unavoidable casualties. None of us are happy about that, but it’s a painful reality. He paused and added, We’ve all accepted our culpability…

When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end... You will never regret it!

When you resist something that has been established for a long time it's like stepping into a highly charged electrical field the opposite to its charge and getting electrocuted. It took a lot of energy to create this object that you are trying to resist against, so it will take a lot of energy to shift it. In other words, its going to take a lot of work. But don't lose hope. Just like any dream worth achieving, it can take time. Make progress. Build a foundation. Surround yourself with like energies and you will create a force field of energy all around you.

When we follow our joy and excitement, being focused on what we love and appreciate, the change always unfolds with a great ease. Whenever we experience any tension in our transformations, it only indicates our resistance to the change. In fact, it is not the change itself that we resist. We resist ourselves. We resist becoming a more holistic person who is aware of our multidimensional nature.

When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism

Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anything; everywhere and all the time.

With Love, the pivot of change emerges, the lever stretches long enough to move the world, the arc of the universe bends toward justice, the spirit of humanity soars, and the flood of life revives.

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

Will is nobler than truth

Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.

Without Love, humanity dies of thirst, grasps at riches, destroys the earth through insatiable greed. Without Love, we are walking dust, dead matter stumbling from the dawn of birth to the dusk of death. Without Love, our Earth is stripped of beingness, left barren and lifeless, a pile of rocks and resources, objects to possess and control. Without Love, humanity sleepwalks as automatons, controlled, manipulated, and shoved through a nightmarish existence.

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

Yet, the existential intellection has disregarded the possibility that a coming-into-being as not a finality but a process and that it is a making of meaning from the ground zero, for we are incomplete beings. Being is nothing but containment of essence, and the precedent-will has to be taken a priori to coming-to-being. Because we are choosing to become a volitional being.

You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

You can break my bone, but you can’t break my spirit without my permission

You can't stop the gears of capitalism. But you can always be a pain in the ass.

You don't have problems, you have resistance.

You don’t have to be afraid—" "I am always afraid!" I don’t know what shocks me more—the power in my voice or the words themselves. Afraid. I am always afraid. It’s a truth I locked away years ago, a fact I fought hard to overcome.

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system.

Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.