How I Resist Quotes

“take what hurts you and try and make it hurt someone else less.”
― Dylan Marron, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“Maybe your resistance is to live. Live big and loud and joyously and fiercely. Live authentic to who you are. Refuse to be silent. Refuse to go away. Refuse stereotypes and limits.
Because you being you is the most powerful kind of resistance of all. (Rebecca Roanhorse)”
― Maureen Johnson, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“The most important tool you can have when you're making anything is curiosity.”
― Dan Sinker, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“I had to shut off the news. I had to take some time away from the political trashfire that was burning out of control, and in the quiet space I cleared for myself, I remembered something important. Every human being here on earth has a specific purpose in life. That purpose might be running for office; it might be raising a child; it might be studying physics; it might be writing novels. Finding your purpose can be a difficult thing to do, but once you’ve found it, your job is to fulfill that purpose.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“Read backward in order to move forward, resisters. The best part? You can find everything you need at your local library. Libraries: serving the resistance since forever. Seriously, libraries are The. Best. Don’t even bother fighting me on this one. You will lose.”
― Libba Bray, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“What matters to you the most, and why does it matter? What rights are you worried about losing, or whose lives do you fear for? Tell their stories.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“Wonder Woman once famously explained her philosophy: “We have a saying among my people. ‘Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify. And don’t raise your hand at all unless you’ve first extended it.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“Momentum toward compassion, understanding, supporting one another … realizing that a person’s struggle, though it’s not mine, is important and I need to defend them and they’re going to defend me … this is how we go forward.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“It’s less about arguing with what they’re posting, and more about us not addressing the addiction. Not just the addiction to scrolling, but the addiction to being praised.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“On the most basic level, resistance means not accepting things the way they are. It means asking questions about how things get done, about how society, laws, and cultural norms have come to be. It can also mean actively taking part in the political process—going to marches, working for campaigns, posting, debating, creating.…”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“If you can't do something until you're good at it, how will you ever start? You won't! You've been told so many times that you need to be an expert to do something. But you know what? You don't! Sometimes you just need to jump in, think of the thing you want to make, and start figuring out how to do it. Find something similar and take it apart...”
― Dan Sinker, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“No one fixes the world alone.”
― Maureen Johnson, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“Without the habit of democracy, the people have no actual power. We have to actively engage with the political questions that define our lives, debating policy, demanding accountability for the elected officials who make the rules, and demanding a voice in the process, or our freedom is but an illusion.”
― Lauren Duca, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“The internet, in all of its infinite bullshit, has also made the world smaller and less frightening. So seeing people who are different from them isn’t that big of a deal. It’s the adults. It’s the insecurity of adults who create blockades for kids. What do I care that he lives in Mexico? What do I care that she’s Muslim? So that is resistance. What they’re actually resisting is the strong-arm tone of the government, but also the strong-arm tone of adultness. The fear of adulthood”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“when you feel ready to get to that podium, literal or metaphorical, take what hurts you and try and make it hurt someone else less.”
― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

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― Tim Federle, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation