Quotes About Struggle

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

Listen, I come from the most screwed-up dysfunctional situation. You've got violence. Police at your house. Your dad's gone. Nowhere to live. I want people to know, if I can make it, anybody can make it.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.