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Quotes About Struggle

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.
~ Vijay Prashad
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
~ Mark McKinnon
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
~ Mary McCarthy
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.
~ Milton R. Hunter
I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.
~ Mitt Romney
We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.
~ Morgan Parker
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring
~ Natan Sharansky
All revolutions in history have obstacles.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Of course, it has never paid much.
~ Molly Ivins
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.
~ Neil Gaiman
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
~ C. S. Lewis
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
~ Thomas Hardy
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
~ Mary Cheney
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.
~ Suzanne Collins
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
~ Mary Lou Williams