Quotes About Struggle

Such was the war. It was not a quadrille in a ball-room. Its interior history will not only never be written—its practicality, minutiae of deeds and passions, will never even be suggested.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

A batter'd, wreck'd old man,Thrown on this savage shore, far from home,Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,I take my way along the island's edge,Venting a heavy heart.

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9

rage. They got up, drove him out of town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. (vv. 28–29) It

we have believed that faith does not mean to acknowledge and embrace negativity.

My judgment is that as long as the pastors of the church are embarrassed by this urgent language to God and assume in our Enlightenment model that such rhetoric has no actual force, we will not get very far in the struggle for justice.

First, that wherever you live, it is probably Egypt; second, that there is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land; and third, that "the way to the land is through the wilderness." There is no way to get from here to there except by joining together and marching.

Reading Jeremiah alone leaves faith in death where God finally will not stay. And reading Second Isaiah alone leads us to imagine that we may receive comfort without tears and tearing. Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs. Without anguish the new song is likely to be strident and just more royal fakery.

So in Psalm 73, when life is inequitable, the speaker is aware of a skewed relationship in which one is less than human: When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you. (Ps. 73:21-22; cf. 102:7-8)49

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream