Quotes About Struggle

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Enquanto não se puser fim à funesta ideia da desigualdade das raças e da seleção entre diferentes espécies humanas, a luta dos povos de origem africana por aquilo que poderíamos chamar de "igualdade das partes" — e, portanto, dos direitos e das responsabilidades —, continuará a ser uma luta legítima.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Hayat satranç gibidir. On parçan? kaybedip yine de kazanabilirsin...

Ya??yorlar. Ac? çekiyorlar. Ölüyorlar.

We surf the waves of capitalism, from crest to trough and back again, but the funny thing is that no matter how often we ride the wave, nobody notices that it's wet. When we are on the crest, we believe that we have climbed a mountain through our own virtuous efforts, and when we are in the trough, we believe that we have fallen into a pit through out own vice.

There are no atheists in foxholes, and no liberals in bar fights, and what

J.-P. Quélin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.

how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.

Around the time the Germans were slaughtering Hereros, the world also was largely ignoring America's brutal counterguerrilla war in the Philippines, in which U.S. troops tortured prisoners, burned villages, killed some 20,000 rebels, and saw an estimated 200,000 more Filipinos die of war-related hunger or disease.

it is easy to see how Stanley's painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on the world. The origin of the fiery passion for justice that fueled Morel is less evident. He

The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were

Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country's history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by drop. Russia's continuing troubles show how long and hard a task this is.

bayonet was a weapon with a worker at each end.

slavery's demise had been hastened by large slave revolts in the British West Indies, brutally and with increasing difficulty suppressed by British troops.

Affonso tried to do something as difficult in his time as in ours: to be a selective modernizer. He

So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run; so many colonels and generals were shot that the almost leaderless Red Army was nearly crushed by the German invasion of 1941.

the idea of independence and self-government in Africa was voiced by almost no one, except for a few beleaguered rebels deep in the Congo rain forest. In

Filled with self-pity and calling himself "a man who had given up his life for his country and for Africa," he

Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold's regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The

The Irish, he told Lloyd George, were "like nothing so much as a lot of frightened children who dread being thrashed.

both sides together suffered another half a million dead and wounded just during the war's final five weeks.