Quotes About Struggle

In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his Gazette through the mail. Their ensuing struggle over the issue of open carriage was an early example of the tension that often still exists between those who create content and those who control distribution systems.

I don't think that I would be me if I didn't have sickle cell.

my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

Almost from the beginning of life on this planet, there's been an intense arms race between bacteria, which developed elaborate methods of defending against viruses, and the ever-evolving viruses, which sought ways to thwart those defenses.

Those who have never faced disease and suffering have no need of producing beauty

I am impassioned for independence; I sacrifice all for it … and am tortured more by all the smallest strings than others are by chains.—XXI, 88.

Our faith was a flickering flame.

Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.

Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?

Freedom for us has always been dangerous. Freedom for us has been a crime as far back as our oldest memories. And so whenever we're feeling liberation we know that there's somebody nearby with a rope and a collar, a shotgun and a curse.

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you.

But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage. Those two cops felt fully authorized to stop us with no reason and no warrant. They felt that they could question us and search us and cart us off to jail if there was the slightest flaw in how we explained our business. Even

No, no, no, no, no. Not at all. People take jobs they don't want, stay in marriages they hate, pay taxes for things they don't wanna do, and live among people they don't like. They love their enemies and hate their friends, break their promises and forget about bein' happy altogether.

But Socco, Mustafa Ali said. If there ain't no black people really and they ain't no white people then how come you still usin' them words? Because them words still usin' me, brother Ali. They usin' me like a mothahfuckah.

looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men, white and black, thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Making friends has always been hard for me.

It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.