Opposition Quotes
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon
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During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.
Wil S. Hylton
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The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
Millicent Fawcett
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Of course there have been some isolated incidents of violence masterminded by the opposition camp
Benjamin Mkapa
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Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
Napoleon Hill
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Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.
Leon Trotsky
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That the opposition forces have made advancement is a mere lie. The opposition have no support among the people. If the opposition had made ... any advancement towards us ... it would have been reported in the media.
Abdul Salam Zaeef
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If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
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Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.
Bernard Bailyn
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Opposition is the very spur of love.
Tobias Smollett
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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
Conan O'Brien
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
Charles Dickens
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di
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The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”
Noel Ignatiev
