Quotes About Struggle

The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order

But needs must when the devil drives.

She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.

Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....

The rich can afford to be virtuous, the poor must shift as best they can.

behind every great man is a woman dedicated to his greatness whilst behind every great woman is a man dedicated to bringing her down.

This world's a vile oubliette. Yet in its refuse I will find the key to free me.

Justine is a good woman in a man's world. She is a good woman according to the rules for women laid down by men and her reward is rape, humiliation and incessant beatings. Her life is that of a woman martyrised by the circumstances of her life as a woman.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

slave. And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it. Why should we live any longer?" And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly. 1 Maccabees 2:1–14

And a happy man had no reason to fight.

Well, naturally, it is not a bad thing to love peace," Ernan countered. "But there comes a time when people can't bear the burdens placed on them. Master Hus is helping people see those burdens, things they've never seen before. And if it isn't right, it won't be borne. Haven't I said so before?" Anika

that no man who led a nation could win without also suffering losses.

But do you remember when the army of Israel tried to throw off the Philistine yoke in the latter days of Eli the high priest?" "I'd hardly count that a victory. Our people were slaughtered and the Ark of the Covenant stolen.

Know your enemy," my mother once told me. "Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.

We women might not be as strong

gotten off easy, okay?" Lisa swallowed hard as her cheeks burned.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Regarding check-cashing places): It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.

He was now entirely disillusioned and his whole life shattered. His heart's devotion had been at Mrs. Dean's feet, and she had found it trying.

What Everard and Philip felt about the hard luck, to give it no harder name, that might tear all their ex-pupils (for they could not help looking at the situation from their own schoolmastering point of view and especially from the point of view of their own school) from their various avocations and pitchfork them into the paths of glory which may lead but to the grave, was so mixed that neither of them could quite have put it into words.