#resistance

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

— Andre Gide

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I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#family

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#distance #future #give #need #needs

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist. ↗

— Raoul Walsh

#good #hard #least #line #many

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never. ↗

— Titus Livius

#comes #criminal #late #never #rashness

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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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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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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