Quotes About Struggle

That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life.

Christ, I'm in Hell and they wear uniforms.

The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.

Morphine is like a religious zealot on a mission; it searches for body parts to convert, offering milk-and-honeyed dreams to flow sluggishly through your veins.

That which nourishes me also destroys me.

Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.

As one southern-born antislavery activist later wrote, it was a "sad satire to call [the] States 'United,'" because in one-half of the country slavery was basic to its way of life while in the other it was fading or already gone. The founding fathers tried to stitch these two nations together with no idea how long the stitching would hold.

Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.

The Douglass of the memoirs is a paragon. There is little trace in him of the man who sometimes must have been petty, impulsive and vain--not a piece of property to be utilized in one way or another but, as one putative friend complained, a "haughty" and "self-possessed' man with the low as well as exalted desires that constitute freedom. To pretend otherwise is to treat him once again as less than human.

Cutting to the heart of the matter, Lincoln made the irrefutable point: "People of any color seldom run, unless there be something to run from." Two SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDERS 1.

The rebellion was over, the Union restored, and after more than two centuries there was no more slavery from which to run. The vast work of repairing its human devastation had barely begun.

And yet vile as it was, the fugitive slave law was also, ironically, a gift to antislavery activists, both black and white, because wherever it was enforced, it allowed them to show off human beings dragged back to the hell whence they came—a more potent aid to the cause than any speech or pamphlet.

Nothing during the American struggle against the slave system did more to wean religious and God-fearing men and women from the old interpretation of Scripture than the use of it to justify slavery.

Exterior: the jungle. Interior: Dark night of the white man's soul.

My book had a shape, an arc—though I was still incapable of describing what that arc plotted or argued for. As a collection of texts, it moved between poetry and fiction, between Los Angeles and New York. The book struggled, self-consciously, with narrative: how to put the things that made up my life, but also the lives of others, into the form of a story.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

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Sometimes death is just simpler than continuing to fight.

Acaso estaban tan devastados que con el paso del tiempo, al llegarles la hora, era más fácil someterse que oponer resistencia? ¿O era porque entendían que resistirse era inútil de cualquier modo y que sólo estarían retrasando lo inevitable?

Although Rice's earthly racial and political ideas drove him away from the struggle for justice in the South, the heavenly core of his faith was just enough to also drive him away from the Klan and his father Will Rice's racial politics, and to leave him open to the claims of black people for justice on earth. His opposition to integration was oddly conditional.

Fundamentalists like Norris were calling for a new struggle to preserve Southern values, Southern religion, Southern culture, and the Southern way of life. And this new battle against modernism was more critical and historically significant even than the Lost Cause of the 19th century, fought to defend the God-given rights of Southern white people to own black slaves.

As the struggle against modernism picked up steam, the nativism and anti-Catholicism of fundamentalists such as Norris assured leaders of the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan that their enterprise had been blessed by God.

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