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• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
  • John Ruskin, The Two Paths, lecture 5 (1859)

• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
  • Susan B. Anthony, in Federal Court being tried for voting (June 18, 1873)

• The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
  • Woodrow Wilson, Address to the New York Press Club, New York City (September 9, 1912)

• Kanye West - Heartless "they don't know what we've been through."

• Resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal.
  • Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, 3rd rev. ed., ch. 3 (1917)

• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
  • Noam Chomsky, In American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

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• I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
  • Paul Robeson

• It's very, very important to understand that war is the result of a flawed peace, and we must understand the systems that are at work here. You know, we must understand that the resistance movement in Iraq is a resistance movement that all of us have to support, because it's our war, too.
  • Arundhati Roy

• Resistance does not start with big words
  But with small deeds [...]
  Asking yourself a question
  And then asking that question to others
  That is how resistance starts.
  • Remco Campert