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Quotes About Struggle

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.
~ Roberto Cavalli
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
~ Adolf Hitler
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
~ Bob Marley
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
~ Saul Alinsky
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
~ Archibald MacLeish
We all need the freedom to die noble in a life that has been unworthy of us, being subject to sin and emptiness.
~ Sorin Cerin
These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
~ Bill Cosby
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
~ Leonard Peltier
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
~ Margaret Haddix
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.
~ Unknown
We will go to the sun of freedom or to the death; if we die, our cause will continue living.
~ Unknown
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~ Melissa Etheridge
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.
~ Samuel Johnson
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberation is not deliverance.
~ Victor Hugo
His headstone said Free at last, Free at last - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence
~ Nikki Giovanni
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourse
~ Patrick Henry
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
~ J Michael Straczynski
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
~ Muhammad Ali
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky