Active Resistance Quotes

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

No amount of moral admonishment or "indirect pressure" will guarantee that our demands are met, in the absence of our own organizational presence on the ground. Only by struggling ourselves can we convince our allies of our attachment to the revolution, to the land, and to our national rights. And only by struggling ourselves will we have the chance to impose our demands, in the face of all reactionary opposition.

I am no advocate of passivity.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.