Quotes About Struggle

No country has yet reached the absolute in protecting human rights. In all countries, certainly including our own, there is much to be accomplished.

America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises.

The Nation and Government," TR wrote, "within the range of fair play and a just administration of the law, must inevitably sympathize with the men who have nothing but their wages, with the men who are struggling for a decent life, as opposed to men, however honorable, who are merely fighting for larger profits and autocratic control of big business.

Writing in 1903, the scholar, historian, and activist W.E.B. Du Bois observed that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line," and, while Du Bois was surely right, it is correct, too, to say that color in some ways remains the problem of American history as a whole.

These answers are fine as far as they go - but still children die, things go wrong, and hearts get broken, so the answers don't go very far. I certainly can't dispose of the challenges to Christian belief, nor can I make an entirely rational case for the existence of God. What I can do is join a vast chorus of voices who see religion as intrinsic and seek to make their home in the ethos of a faith that suggests an order and a direction amid the confusions of life.

Unless he convinced himself that no great life was without its mishaps and its mistakes, he would not be able to return to the arena.

Yet for all that the United States has accomplished—and we have been a country that people take pains to come to, not to leave—we remain an imperfect union.

while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage.

the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, that we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time, and eternally press forward for what is yet to get.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.

Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen

Shame internalized can lead to agony.

TV is just troubled people being booed these days.

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.

How you feed your family is not how we feed our family. For real. We're not out here just for the fun and just for the show-and-tell. This is real life." I am finding myself ostentatiously nodding at everything the crack dealers are saying, I suppose in the hope that if the shooting starts they'll remember my nods and make the effort to shoot around me.

I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.

if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt.

Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food or access to money and in desperation she had to call her mother and sister for help. "Oh!

He was one man screaming at 10,000 people screaming at him. He berated and scolded and called his attackers hypocrites at first, all this made them even more incensed. But he didn't budge. He was a tireless defender of himself.

He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill

I hadn't realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been

I asked Mercedes what sorts of people gathered on 4chan. A lot of them are bored, understimulated, overpersecuted, powerless kids, she replied. They know they can't be anything they want. So they went to the Internet. On the Internet we have power in situations where we would otherwise be powerless.