Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

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.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.