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"As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be."
"The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear."
"Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower."
"The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming."
"In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement."
"Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State)."
"The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses."
"Without resistance you can do nothing"
"Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance."
"To fly, we must have resistance."
