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Quotes About Struggle

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
~ Leon Trotsky
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
~ James A. Baldwin
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.
~ Robert F. Williams
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...
~ Greg Oden
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~ Voltaire
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
~ Alan Moore
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
~ Roy Wilkins
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Historical experience is written in blood and iron.
~ Mao Zedong
I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.
~ Immortal Technique
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
~ Karl Marx
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
~ Tom Hayden
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
~ Gene Tierney
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
~ John Brown Gordon
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
~ Mao Zedong
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
~ Frederick Douglass
Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.
~ Steve Vai