resistance

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.

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally rank among the best organized and most coherent groupings in society. They constitute ready-made organizations - social-based NGOs, if you will - for maintaining Islamic culture and practices under periods of extreme oppression and for fomenting resistance and guerrilla warfare against foreign occupation. The history of Sufi participation in dozens of liberation struggles is long and widespread across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Sufi groups were prominent in the anti-Soviet resistance, and later against the American in Afghanistan and against US occupation forces in Iraq.

I wouldn__ say __rt_ as much as __irtue,_ in the ancient Greek sense of __ndreia_ _ manly action _ or __rete,_ excellence. In my experience, Resistance kicks in any time we try to move ourselves from a lower plane to a higher. In other words, when we try to align with the better parts of our nature. This move can be creative (art) or physical (athletics) or it can be ethical, moral or spiritual. Have you ever tried to meditate? I have and it kicks my butt every time. Spiritual stuff is hard! But so is making __old calls_ if you__e opening a new business. Somehow the principle is the same. We__e trying to overcome our natural laziness, selfishness, sloppiness, etc. So I wouldn__ say __rt,_ I__ say __irtue.

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one__, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind.

Dare to live by letting go.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.

Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures.

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don__ show true emotions.

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did scream, so loudThat this land howled back at meAs hideouslyAs it builds its houses.In this landI have been sownOnly my head sticksDefiant, out of the earthBut one day it too will be mownMaking me, finallyOf this land.-Charlie's poem