A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature…

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in…

— Kay Arthur

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

— Tacitus

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It…

— Albert Einstein

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

— Saddam Hussein

“It was more than any mortal man could resist, so he let go.”

— Kit Rocha

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

— Robin Sharma

“People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.”

— Toba Beta

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

— Dan Millman

“Life is a flow which we can either resist or go with it gracefully.”

— Tonmoy Acharjee

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

— Giorgio Napolitano

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…

— Rumaan Alam