Top 23 Resist Oppression Quotes
#1. 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
#2. With my subjects - the thousands of people I have photographed - I have shared the joy of survival, the courage to resist oppression, the anguish of loss, the resilience of the oppressed, the brutality of the worst of men and the tenderness of the best.
Lynsey Addario
#3. A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
#4. But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.
Eugene H. Peterson
#5. Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought that was Shakespeare." "William was, or course, quite good," Flora said. "But no one can compare to Jane Austen.
Krista McGee
#6. Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -
they're lucky, they can't die again.
Tony Harrison
#7. It is curious but true that those who make a habit of saying unkind things are often the most easily hurt and offended when their victims retaliate.
D.E. Stevenson
#8. The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#9. You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.
Emma Goldman
#12. I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
David Cross
#13. A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
Hosea Ballou
#14. Don, we're huge fans," I said.
"Don, we're huge fans," he shot back in a high-pitched voice meant to mock me.
What a jerk, I thought, but I didn't care, because he was Don Berman, and that's what Don Berman did.
Natalie Standiford
#15. But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
Lysander Spooner
#17. What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
Mark Twain
#18. Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
#19. Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch
#20. If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her.
Sheryl Sandberg
#21. Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
Kay Arthur
#22. The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#23. Alarmed, I looked at him, then the road, then at him again.
Kim Harrison
