Quotes About Struggle

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

A difficulty for every solution.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.