{"quotes":[{"text":"If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and the need to establish a more acceptable and desirable solution is at the very core of the dynamism of the evolution of man in history. Man's protest arose not only because of material suffering; specifically human needs...Are an equally strong motivation for revolution and the dynamics of change.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["change","culture","evolution","malleability","politics","receptiveness","resistance","revolution","society"],"id":2187,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance, and courage. In short, it calls for free, independent spirits, for 'men who are men, and who have a bone in their backs which you cannot pass your hand through.","author":"Emma Goldman","tags":["anarchy","integrity","liberty","politics","resistance"],"id":4360,"author_id":"Emma+Goldman"},{"text":"Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there are illuminating comparisons to be made between these two otherwise very different places.In the New Orleans Black community, death is commemorated as a public ritual (it's often an occasion for a street party), and the deceased are often also memorialized on t-shirts featuring their photos embellished with designs that celebrate their lives. Worn by most of the deceased's friends and family, these t-shirts remind me of the martyr posters in Palestine, which also feature a photo and design to memorialize the person who has passed on. In Palestine, the poster's subjects are anyone who has been killed by the occupation, whether a sick child who died at a checkpoint or an armed fighter killed in combat. In New Orleans, anyone with family and friends can be memorialized on a t-shift. But a sad truth of life in poor communities is that too many of those celebrate on t-shirts lost their lives to violence. For both New Orleans and Palestine, outsiders often think that people have become so accustomed to death by violence that it has become trivialized by t-shirts and posters.While it's true that these traditions wouldn't manifest in these particular ways if either population had more opportunities for long lives and death from natural causes, it's also far from trivial to find ways to celebrate a life. Outsiders tend to demonize those killed--especially the young men--in both cultures as thugs, killers, or terrorists whose lives shouldn't be memorialized in this way, or at all. But the people carrying on these traditions emphasize that every person is a son or daughter of someone, and every death should be mourned, every life celebrated.","author":"Jordan Flaherty","tags":["celebration","civil-disobedience","community","death","funeral","life","martyr","new-orleans","non-violence","palestine","resistance","second-line","struggle"],"id":4691,"author_id":"Jordan+Flaherty"},{"text":"Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","resistance"],"id":7041,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the salmon need your heart, no matter how weary, because even a broken heart is still made of love. They need your heart because they are disappearing, slipping into that longest night of extinction, and the resistance is nowhere in sight. We will have to build that resistance from whatever comes to hand: whispers and prayers, history and dreams, from our bravest words and braver actions. It will be hard, there will be a cost, and in too many implacable dawns it will seem impossible. But we will have to do it anyway. So gather your heart and join with every living being. With love as our First Cause, how can we fail?","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["anti-civ","bravery","climate-change","deep-green-resistance","extinction","love","resistance"],"id":7315,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.","author":"Gloria Steinem","tags":["change","resistance "],"id":7464,"author_id":"Gloria+Steinem"},{"text":"Naysayers are frightened by their own power.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["doubt","fear","freightened","naysayer","negative-energy","power","resistance","self-awareness"],"id":7726,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn't cheat on taxes, avoid cops, or skip class? These acts themselves may not be revolutionary, but they begin to unravel the control from above. Anarchist approaches must be relevant to everyday experiences and flexible enough to address struggles in different situations and contexts. If we can achieve this, then we may thrive in the world after the dinosaurs. We might even be fortunate enough to be in one of the communities that have a hand in toppling them.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","crimethinc","dinosaurs","resistance","revolution","taxes","theory"],"id":9289,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"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.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["history","human","humanism","resistance"],"id":14005,"author_id":"Edward+Said"},{"text":"I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the americans...The top officials hate Saddam Hussein.The White House is lying once again. He's a liar.He's the world's number one liar.He said there were chemical weapons in Iraq, and that Iraq is connected with terrorism.Later he declared: 'We didn't find any of this in Iraq.'What I want to say is that he also declared that what Saddam Hussein says is not true...This is defamation of your president of thirty five years.","author":"Saddam Hussein","tags":["bravery","resistance","truth"],"id":14693,"author_id":"Saddam+Hussein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":241,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}