"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

Defiance, Courage, Speech, Justice, Freedom

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"You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..if you already know that I can't be intimidated."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Defiance, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Emotion

"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Defiance, Strength, Identity, Humor

"Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Defiance, Hell, Rebellion, Denial, Faith

"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Defiance, Strength, Independence, Temper

"Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Defiance, Irony, Faith, Power

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

Defiance, Humor, Insult, Rebellion

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me."

John Irving, American Novelist

Defiance, Judgment, Identity, Freedom

"When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Defiance, Injustice, Stand, Demand, Rights

"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Defiance, Resistance, Seriousness, World, Freedom

"Never! while heaven spares my reason, ' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Defiance, Courage, Resistance, Emotion

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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

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"I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God."

Devotion

"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."

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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

Grief

"Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected."

Womanhood

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light."

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"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

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"You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..if you already know that I can't be intimidated."

"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."

"Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie."

"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."

"Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk."

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you."

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me."

"When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice."

"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."

"Never! while heaven spares my reason, ' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own."

Explore more quotes by James Russell Lowell

"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

"I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God."

"Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in."

"Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge."

"Fate loves the fearless."

"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."

"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

"Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected."

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light."

"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."