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Quotes About Struggle

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
~ Ho Chi Minh
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
~ Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace
~ Patrick Pearse
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
~ Marcelo H. del Pilar
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
~ William Wallace
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~ George Carlin
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
~ Edward Said
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
~ Peter Mandelson
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
~ Frances Harper
We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
~ William Hazlitt
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.
~ Paul Gauguin
And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
~ Spartacus
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
~ Chief Joseph
The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
~ James T. Walsh
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.
~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
~ Emiliano Zapata
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
~ Jimmy Carter
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
~ Abbie Hoffman