Quotes About Struggle

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

We have to continue to empower each other... we do not have to live in this marginalisation, we do not have to live in oppression, but our fight to get out of it is not going to be an easy one.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.