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Quotes About Struggle

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
~ R. H. Tawney
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~ Nelson Mandela
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
~ Robert Wyatt
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
~ Martin McGuinness
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
~ Chuck D
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
~ Aminu Kano
The price of freedom is death.
~ Malcolm X
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
~ Millard Fillmore
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
~ Malcolm X
if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
~ Madame Roland
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.
~ Tina Turner
Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
~ Gerry Adams
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
~ Gerry Adams
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
~ Gene Sharp
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
~ Shirley Temple
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
~ John F. Kennedy
Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.
~ Unknown