Quotes About Struggle

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

We are pregnant with freedom.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Freedom for the working class!

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.