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Quotes About Struggle

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
~ Sophocles, Philoctetes
Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.
~ Unknown
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
~ Sue Townsend
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
~ Thabo Mbeki
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
~ Frantz Fanon
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
~ Claude McKay
As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.
~ Unknown
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
~ Germaine Greer
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.
~ Roy DeCarava
The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.
~ Simon Soloveychik
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.
~ Richard Adams
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.
~ Nelson Mandela
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
~ Greg Lake
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
~ Trent Reznor
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
~ Cesar Chavez
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
~ George Stillman Hillard
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
~ Frederick Douglass
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
~ Edith Hamilton