“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” MenGodChristianIndividualHeavenSocialChristianityRightsDutyOughtTyrannyResistanceDependenceResistingOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianSteadfastUs Founding FathersChristianity From Founding FathersChristian PatrioticDependence On God Author:John Hancock
“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.” ShouldLittlesMadeCountryLawLanguageDealsRightsDesignJudgingAuthorityRootsConstitutionFundamentalsCourtResistanceVulnerableCategoriesJudiciaryConstitutional LawRedefining Author:Byron White
“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.” CharacterBodyPoliticalReligionChurchReligiousViewsStepsRightsMetsDemandSlaveryPropertyEducationalResistanceBitterOppositionWomens RightsEvery StepReligious FreedomTemperanceClergyKindredExponentsAnti SlaveryPolitical EqualityPersonal Rights Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.” SufferingRightsArmsMethodResistancePassiveReversePassive Resistance Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.” ArtIdeasBlackTalkingRolesRightsIdentityRevolutionElementsProductionsResistanceCivil RightsAggressiveAffirmationRefusalAssertionSuccessorsJamaicaBlack Art Author:Mark McMorris
“'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.” ShouldLooksMomentsUnderstandingRightsGayNormalStrategyCurrentsDecadesResistanceVisibleFrameworkTransNormal LifeLegal Rights Author:Dean Spade
“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.” MenFirstsSelfWisdomAmericaPoliticalPoliticsEconomyRightsJudgingDutyCircumstancesJudgmentGunResistanceCommandObediencePreservesLiberalismRulersEntitledGun ControlPreservationObligedQualifiedEvaluateSelf PreservationWarrantsMagistratesSingle ManInalienable RightsDuty To God Author:John Locke
“Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.” WarStatesUseForceRightsDefenseCeaseResistanceFormerTiesAggressors Book:The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
“Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.” AbleNaturalGrowingRightsTearsOughtDegreesResistanceAcquireUndisputed Author:Polybius
“The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.” ThinkingWarSometimesCertainGivenLibertyRightsResistanceOppressionAlternativesRighteousImmoralPacifist Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."” PeopleWorldWayMeanGovernmentActionFacesFunCreativityRightsMovementOrganizationBasesInnovationTradeDemocraticAncientCampaignsResistanceCollectivesHeritageConstructiveSaying NoWorld TradeGrassrootsRetaliationDemocratic RightsWorld Trade Organization Author:Vandana Shiva
“For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.” IdeasRightsDiversityIntellectualPropertyResistanceDevelopingRegimesMonopolySaying NoProperty RightsPatentsContinuationBiodiversityIntellectual PropertySatyagrahaCooperating Author:Vandana Shiva
“There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.” SidesCommunityWhiteRightsMovementStandardsDeterminationDeterminedNeighborResistanceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanCivil Rights MovementHigh StandardsCourage And DeterminationNeighbors And Friends Author:Jeff Sessions