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Quotes About Struggle

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
~ Barbara Gittings
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
~ Charles Dickens
Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.
~ Amelia Bloomer
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
~ Aristotle
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
~ Malcolm X
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
~ William Dean Howells
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
~ Will Durant
I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality.
~ Chelsea Manning
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.
~ Laura Bates
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
~ Vladimir Bukovsky
Equality is a mortuary word.
~ Christopher Fry
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
~ Robert Breault
Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
~ T. H. White
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
~ George Elliott Clarke
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Equality is never given, it is taken.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
~ Jon Stewart
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
~ Dolly Parton
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
~ Hesiod
Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
~ A. E. Housman
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect
~ Unknown
There is no excellency without difficulty.
~ Ovid