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    Lauren Oliver
    “You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.

    I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: courage, love, resistance, strength
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    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
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    Assata Shakur
    “People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
    ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
    tags: liberation, oppression, resistance
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    Susan Sontag
    “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
    ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: resistance
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    Terry Eagleton
    “After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
    ― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
    tags: apathy, capitalism, inevitability, inspirational, marxism, resistance, socialism
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  • #7
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: resistance
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    Ulrike Marie Meinhof
    “Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.”
    ― Ulrike Meinhof
    tags: activism, protest, resistance
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    Edward W. Said
    “Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
    ― Edward W. Said
    tags: history, human, humanism, resistance
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    A.C. Crispin
    “Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.”
    ― A.C. Crispin, Time for Yesterday
    tags: change, resistance
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    Dave Pelzer
    “It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”
    ― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"
    tags: healing, overcoming-past-weaknesses, past, survivor
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    William Shakespeare
    “What's past is prologue.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: past
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    Stephen King
    “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
    ― Stephen King, Joyland
    tags: past
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    William Shakespeare
    “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: past
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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  • #31
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
    3607 likes



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