Quotes About Struggle

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.