#resistance

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. ↗

— Cheech Marin

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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

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I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

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Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#bit #days #elevator #eleventh #floor

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ↗

— Robert Conklin

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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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