Quotes About Struggle

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.