Quotes About Struggle

A number of those sections of the old Empire which were most highly developed economically and most favored by natural resources and situation, in particular a majority of the wealthy towns went over to Protestantism in the sixteenth century The results of that circumstance favor the Protestants even today in their strug gle for economic existence.

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.

Let the storm rage ever stronger!

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

My hands scrabbled in a wide, frantic arc and touched something hard and round. Wood. I pulled myself forward a few inches, grasped it and, afraid to look, felt above it to a firm, cloth-covered surface. It was a chair. I forced my eyes open. I

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.

Heaven is always taken by storm.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

The years are long, and full of sharp, wearing days That wear out what we are and what we have been And change us into people we do not know, Living among strangers.

But I've been walking through the night and the dayTill my eyes get weary and my head turns grey,And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away,Forgetting the promise that we heard him say—And we're lost out here in the stars—

The individual who is actively engaged in a struggle, or in striving toward an important goal, does not come up with pessimistic philosophies concerning the meaninglessness or the futility of life.

The person with emotional scars not only has a self-image of an unwanted, disliked, and incapable person, he also has an image of the world in which he lives as a hostile place.

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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

I know why the caged bird sings.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

There were times when it was said that I had more determination than talent. This may be said of many. It may also be said that life loves the person who dares to live it.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.