"I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in…" — Virginia Woolf

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• No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson
• Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson
• If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing… — David Icke
• Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority,… — Thomas Jefferson
• The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is… — Noam Chomsky
• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper… — Grover Cleveland
• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray
• To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed… — Barbara Smoker
• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He… — Joshua Chamberlain
• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to… — Jeff Buckley
• Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is… — Anton Szandor LaVey

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