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Quotes About Struggle

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
~ William O. Douglas
Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.
~ Allison Anders
The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.
~ Shelby Steele
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
~ Elie Wiesel
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
~ Gloria Steinem
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America's troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust.
~ Andrew Breitbart
I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.
~ Amy Klobuchar
We are really the victims of our own problems.
~ Jimmy Greaves
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
~ George Jackson
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.
~ Pink
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
~ Mia Farrow
Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.
~ Nadia Murad
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
~ Ezra Miller
We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
~ Smokey Robinson
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
~ Michael McCaul
The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
~ Ziggy Marley
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
~ Deepak Chopra
My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.
~ Troy Duffy
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
~ Paddy Considine
People in Cuba are victims.
~ Joe Garcia
There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
~ Jeremy Irons
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.
~ Kehinde Wiley
Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment.
~ Alissa Quart