Quotes About Struggle

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

Easy is not an option!

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.

Growing up, I always wanted kids, and that was one of the things that made it hard for me to accept being gay, but now I know it's totally an option to have kids.

If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

I think that I represent people that sometimes don't have a voice because of how they grew up or where they grew up or the options that were given to them. I was able to kick my way out of that, but we have a real class problem in this country, where it's hard to jump classes.

There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would my life be without football? I don't know.

As a kid, I felt like I had no voice, felt like I had no options, and that's what drove me to this really dark place.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.