Quotes about Defiance

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppos

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;

When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.