Quotes About Militancy

#1. Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Deepak Chopra

#2. After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

Sheikh Hasina

#3. We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

Pervez Musharraf

#5. The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

#6. It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#7. In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Cesar Chavez

#8. The moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#9. There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#11. Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

David Cortright

#12. Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#13. But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Amos Oz

#14. You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

Ernest Mandel

#15. Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#16. Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

Stephen Kinzer

#17. I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

Jesse Owens

#18. You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Ernest Mandel

#19. I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality

Paul Isaacs

#21. The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#22. I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

#23. U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

Noam Chomsky

#24. One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Stokely Carmichael

#25. Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

Lucretius

#26. The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

Michael Card

#27. Folly and evil are twins;
the devil is their father,
and wisdom is their enemy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

Patrick Wilson

#29. Rick Grimes: [Jimmy reaches for a rifle; Rick takes it from him] You ever fire one before?
Jimmy: Well, if I'm going out I want one.
Daryl Dixon: Yeah, and people in hell want Slurpees.

The Walking Dead

#30. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

#31. I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#32. People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

David Bowie

#33. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X

#34. The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#36. I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.

Trent Reznor

#37. What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

George Muller