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Quotes About Struggle

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~ Coretta Scott King
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
~ Ella Baker
My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.
~ Fela Kuti
Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
~ James Connolly
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
~ Harriet Tubman
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
~ Julius Nyerere
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
~ Julian Bond
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
~ Simon Bolivar
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.
~ Patrick Pearse
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
~ Langston Hughes
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
~ Angela Davis
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
~ Nelson Mandela
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
~ Ai Weiwei
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
~ Malcolm X
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
~ Nelson Mandela
The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.
~ Dred Scott
People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
~ Bayard Rustin
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
~ Millard Fillmore
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
~ Simon Wiesenthal
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
~ Lord Acton
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
~ Jose Marti
Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom.
~ Lauren Oliver