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Quotes About Struggle

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.
~ Riane Eisler
When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
~ Lee Trevino
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
~ Tim Conway
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
~ Willie Dixon
I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
~ William Kamkwamba
Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.
~ Carolina Maria de Jesus
Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
~ Paige
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
~ Edward Teller
The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.
~ Richard Hofstadter
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.
~ Gary North
Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
~ Aldous Huxley
The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.
~ Bob Dylan
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
~ Martin Seligman
The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.
~ Alejandro Castro Espin
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.
~ Jackson Browne
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
~ Charles Bukowski
And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.
~ C.L. Smooth
It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
~ James Ellroy
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
~ Thomas Carper
There's no future in being poor.
~ Robert Shaw
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.
~ Kool Moe Dee
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
~ Leigh Steinberg
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
~ Auguste Rodin