To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.