Anton Chekhov Quotes

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

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

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

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Our young people in increasing numbers are rejecting all forms or authority.

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

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.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

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.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

Resistance is the first step to change.

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

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks