I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also… — Valtteri Bottas Copy Share Image
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East.… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There were a lot of points where I would start to come out, face stern resistance and mockery from people I thought… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
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