Resist/background

Famous quotes containing the words resist and/or background:

“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)