Quotes About Struggle

For billions of years, evolution has been driven by competition caused by the simple fact that, left unchecked, all living things can reproduce faster than their environment can sustain

People who can see their neighbors with air-conditioning and cars, but who themselves live in shacks and often lack sewage disposal or a reliable water supply, have little to lose, and may find violence a rational option.

That's how it can happen sometimes. Just when you thought there was nothing left for Fortune to throw at you, she deals you a low blow. Kindness.

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Je ne voudrais pas être une femme ici. je ne voudrais pas porter en permanence le poids de ces regards, leurs violences multiples, attisées par la frustration. Pour la première fois, je réalise que l'acte le plus banal d'une femme en Algérie se charge d'emblée de symboles et d'héroïsme tant l'animosité masculine est grande, maladive.

She tried to slip her hand inside his pants. Feeling as if he'd just slammed into wall and had some sense knocked back into his head, Urich gripped her wrist, frantic to make her stop before she unleashed more than his gender.

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt?

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.

No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me.

My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me.

But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.