Quotes About Struggle

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.