Quotes About Struggle

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

My mother didn't get her citizenship until much later in life.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.