Quotes About Struggle

in a true democracy, things are often messy, ...you often don't get what you want or deserve immediately, and... you have to constantly engage, protest, resist, and negotiate.

It is more difficult to reckon with race if we cannot

This gulf between hope and the heartbreak that is the lot of millions of black poor is nowhere better glimpsed than in the social and economic circumstances that batter the black family

In the fight for civil rights] The threat and reality of death played many roles simultaneously: It is a bitter arena to be played. It was also the producer, director, and often the co-star of many civil rights performances--marches, demonstrations, funerals, rallies, protests, freedom rides, sit-ins, speeches, and eulogies.

Those closer to home have been lashed in the face by a nation that praises white hustle but despises such agency in their darker kin.

Instead, we are two symbols in a 400-year-old battle of guilt and innocence.

Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives. The spoils we reaped from forcing people to work without wages and treating them with grievous inhumanity continue to haunt us in a racial gulf that seems impossible to overcome.

Race makes class hurt more.

And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won't make a difference, we have to wrestle, first, with the difference that race makes.

Every day of your life is a fight. If you haven't realised that yet, you have already lost.

Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.

Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

survive, and neither do the strong. Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational,

Nature, Knight clarified, is brutal. The weak do not survive, and neither do the strong. Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

Fighting against everything, he may have realized, only makes one's life infinitely harder. He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational, yet heartbreaking.

Depressive episodes closed around him like curtains and could hang there for weeks.

If you're born a human oddity, says the introductory chapter of Very Special People, every day of your life, starting in infancy, you are made aware that you are not as others are. When you get older, it continues, things are likely to get worse. You may hide from the world, advises the book, to avoid the punishment it inflicts on those who differ from the rest in mind or body.

Niederhochwald. She seemed determined to work her way through the

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

?air R. M. Rilke modern ça??n gittikçe daha az çaba talep edece?ini anlam??t?: "?nsanlar her soruna kolay çözüm, hem de kolay?n en kolay?n? ar?yorlar. Ama zor olana tutunmam?z gerekti?i gayet aç?k; her canl? yarat?k zora s?ms?k? tutunur.

You can put a drug addict in the middle of the Sahara Desert and somehow they'll find drugs.

he understands the penitentiary. It is the expectations and values of the world outside of prison that he has trouble comprehending.