Quotes About Struggle

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Labour should have fought with every sinew in 2010 to retain power. To give up power voluntarily because you are tired of government and it is all too difficult is a betrayal of the people you serve.

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.

There's a photograph of me in the transplant unit where I have a vomit bucket under one arm, I have my laptop on my knees, and I'm crying, not because, you know, I'm about to have a bone marrow transplant, but because I've missed a deadline!

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

The whole first year of my career was a public vote. I know exactly where I've come from and the public played a massive part and I'll never forget that, but I shouldn't have to explain to anyone I need a break.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

'Ace of Space' was a really tough show and I think everyone did really well. I am so glad the audience liked the real me and voted me to victory.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

In 2007 elections, people voted for us in the hope that we would get rid of Goonda Raj, as the criminals of SP had made life difficult for them.