Resistance Quotes

“The women were passive, sexualized and blank, save for the hint of a Mona Lisa smile on all their faces.  Objects to be observed and enjoyed by some unseen onlooker.  Nothing in the depictions of these women – or girls, really -- suggested they had personalities, goals, family, friends, history, feelings… It bothered me more, however, that all of them were young and White, their translucent, porcelain skin unscathed by tattoos, moles or scars.  Only a sexy set of freckles or sunburnt cheeks marred their otherwise flawless skin. ”
― Zainab Amadahy, Resistance

“These people need me and I need them.  That’s all I care about.  I don’t have to toil my youth away trying to get degrees or certificates to work in some soulless corporation.  I don’t want to find out just before I retire that the only thing that matters in life is how much you tried to make the world a better place.”
― Zainab Amadahy, Resistance

“As surely as my African-descended ancestors had once been captured, chained and enslaved in Virginia; as surely as my Indigenous Mexican ancestors had been conquered by the Conquistadors, I too was facing a hopeless situation.  All I could do was count myself lucky that the chains that bound me, the torture I endured, were not inflicted on my body, only my spirit.  And the spirit, given time, would recover.”
― Zainab Amadahy, Resistance