10 Amazing Acts Of Defiance Throughout History

[Bit_Happy]

Who could ever forget Tank Man, that unknown man who stood in front of all those tanks at Tiananmen Square? As epic as that act of defiance was, there are other classic examples that are spun from the same material as Tank Man’s story. The amazing acts of defiance listed below are veritable legends and, as such, deserve their own rightful place in history.

The Man Who Refused To Do The Nazi Salute


The Woman Who Brushed Off A Bayonet


more: http://listverse.com/2014/04/02/10-amazing-acts-of-defiance-throughout-history

How are things in your town these days?

[WEB slicer]

tank man blocking tanks after china declared martial law and killed civilians.


burning monk burned himself to death to protest persecution of buddhist monks, he did not move or make a sound.

[Nemo1024]

Hippies. Choose, America. War and self-destruction, or peace and prosperity. The message of this iconic images needs to be repeated these days.

[Bit_Happy]

Hippies. Choose, America. War and self-destruction, or peace and prosperity. The message of this iconic images needs to be repeated these days.

Peace

tank man blocking tanks after china declared martial law and killed civilians.
...

Is this the same person who was run over?
RIP...

[WEB slicer]

he was not run over. he jumped on the tank pounded on the hatchet had words with the crew and got back in front of the tank. two people from the crowd grabbed him and pulled him in to the crowd. he was never seen or heard from again. people think the government killed him or threw him in jail for life.

[bryant.coleman]

Is this the same person who was run over?

He is better known as the Tank Man.

He was a 19-year old student. More details can be found here:

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-03/news/mn-819_1_man-tank-pictures

[LostDutchman]

Who could ever forget Tank Man, that unknown man who stood in front of all those tanks at Tiananmen Square? As epic as that act of defiance was, there are other classic examples that are spun from the same material as Tank Man’s story. The amazing acts of defiance listed below are veritable legends and, as such, deserve their own rightful place in history.

The Man Who Refused To Do The Nazi Salute


The Woman Who Brushed Off A Bayonet


more: http://listverse.com/2014/04/02/10-amazing-acts-of-defiance-throughout-history

How are things in your town these days?

In my town things went to shit today as some Neo-Nazi shot up a couple of Jewish places and killed some people:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/25235053/shooting-reported-at-overland-park-jewish-community-center

A very bad deal.

My $.02.

[Bit_Happy]

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In my town things went to shit today as some Neo-Nazi shot up a couple of Jewish places and killed some people:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/25235053/shooting-reported-at-overland-park-jewish-community-center

A very bad deal.

My $.02.

I heard on the radio.
Very sorry you were so close to that.
Someday, the world will hopefully be safer and more peaceful.

[Vod]

Someday, the world will hopefully be safer and more peaceful.

I don't think that is in humanity's future.

[LostDutchman]

....

In my town things went to shit today as some Neo-Nazi shot up a couple of Jewish places and killed some people:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/25235053/shooting-reported-at-overland-park-jewish-community-center

A very bad deal.

My $.02.

I heard on the radio.
Very sorry you were so close to that.
Someday, the world will hopefully be safer and more peaceful.

Yeah, thanks, I am about 20 miles from the sites of the violence so no danger to me but the whole thing stinks.

My $.02.

[LostDutchman]

Someday, the world will hopefully be safer and more peaceful.

I don't think that is in humanity's future.

I heard that!

My $.02.

[Bit_Happy]

Someday, the world will hopefully be safer and more peaceful.

I don't think that is in humanity's future.

History sucks, perhaps there is little hope.
No need to tell the children. 

[WEB slicer]

I don't think that is in humanity's future.

agreed

[Nemo1024]

The whole of South-Eastern Ukraine is now a big act of defiance, with hundreds, if not thousands of "Tank Men" stopping tank columns with only their bodies as a weapon.

[bryant.coleman]

This, from Ukraine. 3 elderly women trying to stop army tanks:

[counter]

All these stories are amasing but the one photo and story of the monk on fire is one I'm not very familiar with and it really got my attention.  Thanks for sharing these stories with some of us who may not have been aware of them.

[Nemo1024]

I am compelled to add this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A05s6GrztbQ

Kherson Governor Yury Odarchenko during a speech on the 9th of May, stated that Hitler tried to liberate Ukraine by invading it. One brave soul from the public comes forward and deprives him of the microphone.

This resonates with the first picture of the thread.

And another:

Ever heard about the Tank man from China?



Well.... here is an image from Mariupol, of a civilian trying to stop a Right Sector-controlled tank. No idea what happened to him afterwards.

[RodeoX]

As a side note about "tank man". That image is almost completely unknown in China. That is how clamped down the government is there.

[Trading]

Some of those cases, like the tank man and the monk, are indeed remarkable, but others are less "amazing". Big part of its fame are derived from the fact that someone took a picture.
There are historical cases much more dramatic. Think about Giordano Bruno. He was burnt alive for refusing to repent for saying that there were other worlds spinning around stars that were suns like ours in 1600. The major accusations were about theological issues, but he repented about those; but not on this one.

[bryant.coleman]

Here is another. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag sentenced to death by stoning, for refusing to convert to Islam. Her husband is an American citizen, but there has been no help from the United States authorities so far.