Quotes About Struggle

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it's power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

After an hour your power goes sour.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.