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Abe Fortas Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Alexander Hamilton
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Obstacles often are not personal attacks; they are muscle builders.
Anonymous
Adversity weakens the weak and strengthens the strong.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.
Booker T. Washington
I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Chamique Holdsclaw
When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.
Charles de Gaulle New York Times Magazine 5/12/68
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Dale Spender Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor : the Years Alone by Lash
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Epicurus
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Hamilton Mabie
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against--not with--the wind.
Heraclitus Fragments
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Joseph Sobran
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Justice Robert Jackson West Virginia State Board V. Barnette, 1943
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
 
 
 
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