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Quotes About Struggle

My main fight is for freedom and equality.
~ Muhammad Ali
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
~ Gerry Spence
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
~ Alice Walker
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
~ Karel Appel
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
~ Frederick Douglass
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
~ Gerald Seymour
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
~ Bruce Lee
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
~ Alice Walker
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
~ Robert Frost
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
~ Malcolm X
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
~ Molly Ivins
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
~ Elia Kazan
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
~ Karl Popper
And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
~ Clarice Lispector
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.