Quotes About Struggle

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

History has been the history of warfare.

History is where tensions were.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

History! Read it and weep!

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.