defiance

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fec94b8	care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.	solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment defiance self-reliance self-respect self-esteem	Charlotte Brontë
76ec8a7	"Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it."	harry-potter scrimgeour defiance	J.K. Rowling
3dfb0dd	The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.	history change opposition self-assurance defiance	Howard Zinn
ae69dcc	You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.	freedom empowerment critical-thinking social-order defiance dissent	Naomi Wolf
89c85b0	Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.	spirit inspirational ghetto nazi defiance jew resistance	Leon Uris
7b8aa3f	The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!	strength defiance targaryen targaryens game-of-thrones jaehaerys-targaryen fire-and-blood fire	Ellen Raskin
7c1e0bb	And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.	rebellion joy defiance reverence tragic	Ayn Rand
b7ec5c7	What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it?...	defiance	Fyodor Dostoyevsky

care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment defiance self-reliance self-respect self-esteem

Charlotte Brontë

76ec8a7

"Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it."

harry-potter scrimgeour defiance

J.K. Rowling

3dfb0dd

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

history change opposition self-assurance defiance

Howard Zinn

ae69dcc

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

freedom empowerment critical-thinking social-order defiance dissent

Naomi Wolf

89c85b0

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

spirit inspirational ghetto nazi defiance jew resistance

Leon Uris

7b8aa3f

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

strength defiance targaryen targaryens game-of-thrones jaehaerys-targaryen fire-and-blood fire

Ellen Raskin

7c1e0bb

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

rebellion joy defiance reverence tragic

Ayn Rand

b7ec5c7

What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it?...

defiance

Fyodor Dostoyevsky