Resistance Quotes

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

John Locke

"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."

Alfred Russel Wallace

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

"I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave."

Lucretia Mott

"Where there is power, there is resistance."

Michel Foucault

“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

"Resist much, obey little."

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

"Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority."

"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."

Woodrow Wilson