Quotes About Struggle

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing, endurance of suffering, the resisting it with hope and life.

Critique of the 1 percent's domination predates, it should be recalled, the "Occupy" movement's popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked often on the notion of the 1 percent in his early speeches of the 1950s: "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes.

The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the holiness of pain but the wonder of life's power to persist and transform. The way of the crucified God seeks God in earth's humanity, which has been abandoned, rejected, and despised, the people who know life amid their struggle.

Freedom is just another word for wretchedness.

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

But I've been drinking. Last time I mixed alcohol and Xanax, I went completely crazy.

I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

The war is lost," Milley said. "The enemy is in control in Kabul."

Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen.

Whatever China has and Vietnam needs, we will provide," Mao intoned. The Chinese Communist Party "offers all the military assistance Vietnam needs in its struggle against France."[67] True to his word, Mao gave Ho everything he requested. During the first nine months of 1950, the Chinese shipped the Viet Minh 14,000 rifles, 1,700 machine guns and recoilless rifles, 60 artillery pieces, 300 bazookas, and a variety of other military equipment.

President Ronald Reagan cautioned that "[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."3

For the Statist, there must be a class struggle and it must be a never-ending struggle, for it is perhaps his most valuable weapon in his war against the individual, the free market, and ultimately the civil society.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."6

Social movements thrive on conflict," wrote Piven and Cloward.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band's twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the 'mature' thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.

Coming out for gay people is a process, not a one-time event. Some days you feel free, open, and ready to piss on the world if they care what you do in bed. On other days, even if you've been out to yourself and others, you're ready to hide in the darkest closet—because sometimes it is safer, easier, and more secure to hide.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. C. S. LEWIS A

The marathon lane is largely empty, mostly silent: the road of the damned rather than the saved.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome …

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.