"Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more."

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Source : "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

Ulrike Meinhof

#Resistance Quotes #Doe Quotes #Protest Quotes

“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”
“Death to the pigs is my basic statement.”
“On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.”
“There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you'll know Freedom.”
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?”

Source : 1970 The Female Eunuch,'Soul: Womanpower'.
“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
“At least I can write.”
“Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.”

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