Quotes About Struggle

My comrades on the block continued to resist that authority, and I felt that I could not let college pull me away, no matter how attractive education was. These brothers had the sense of harmony and communion I needed to maintain that part of myself not totally crushed by the schools and other authorities.

Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the

Misfortune is a test of people's fidelity. Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

One of the first things any Black child must learn is how to fight well.

It seemed as though most of the cats that we'd come up with just hadn't made it," he says. "Almost everybody was dead or in jail." Many young Black men in our generation can say the same thing. Drugs, oppression, and despair take their toll. Survival is not a simple matter or something to be taken for granted.

Looking back, I see that my friends and I were all in the same boat—heading for hell on earth and trying to reach heaven in church.

When I became aware of the effect of the bills on my family, I wanted to be free of them. It was more than the bills that disturbed me, however. We were in an impoverished state, and I found it hard to understand how my father could work so hard yet have so little.

again over his, then breaking away, she begged. "Richard, Richard, please…? She pulled him fiercely to her, and the doctor's hands, long and lean and strong, tore at the silken robe that

It is not easy to solve the problem of sorrow. Indeed there is no solution of it, unless the individual soul works out its own solution.

When, as repeatedly happened, peace was admitted to be war, the Europeans, it has been well said, showed themselves 'ready to fight to the last Indian'.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers." Neville Chamberlain

Outside my window, the British public traded crack, slept with itself for money, and fought drunken battles it couldn't remember in the morning.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. N. CHAMBERLAIN

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

The number of things just outside the perimeter of my financial reach remains constant no matter how much my financial condition improves. With each increase in my income a new perimeter forms and I experience the same relative sense of lack.

La vita è fatta di problemi irrisolti, vittorie ambigue e vaghe sconfitte, con qualche momento di autentica pace.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

Some Christians feel embarrassed to admit doubts because they've been told that if they just had enough faith, they'd harbor no doubts. They worry that people might find out about their doubts and, consequently, think less of them as Jesus's followers. If we meet someone who struggles in this way, let's be ready to remind them that since God knows our doubts already, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by admitting them and asking for help.

Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.

I bring in my heart the weeping and crying Caribbean Orinoco.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.