#fiance

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. ↗

— Leon Uris

#bravery #courage #defiance #freedom #ghetto

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#change #defiance #history #opposition #self-assurance

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master? ↗

— Courtney M. Privett

#freedom #slavery #freedom

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#defiance #despair #done #god #greatest

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. ↗

— Gerard Way

#defiance #self-assuredness #self

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#by the time #done #else #family #fans

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#already #aristocracy #bid #birth #challenge

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#defiance #harry-potter #scrimgeour #anger