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Quotes About Struggle

The midwife of history is violence.
~ Franz Joseph I of Austria
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
~ Immortal Technique
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
~ Raymond Queneau
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
~ Angela Davis
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
~ Will Durant
As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
~ T. B. Joshua
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
~ Stephen Ambrose
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
~ Voltaire
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
~ Dean Acheson
History is the study of the world's crime
~ Voltaire
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
~ Evelyn Underhill
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
~ John Pugsley
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
~ John Brown Gordon
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
History paints the human heart.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
History is at once freedom and necessity.
~ Antonio Gramsci
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
~ George Mallory
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
~ Peter Kropotkin
Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
~ Artie Lange
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
~ Joseph Stalin