Quotes About Struggle

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.