When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Neil Young

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Mays

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
Al Sharpton

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
Robert Peel

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Zora Neale Hurston

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley