Vann R. Newkirk II quotes

“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect”
-- Vann R. Newkirk II

#Political Quotes #Justice Will Prevail Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.”

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.”

“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

“Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.”

“Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale

“there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.”

“Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

“Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.”