Quotes About Struggle

With my nose buried in the floorboards, I reflected that, in such situations, there are three kinds of people: those who stand in front of a tank and dare it to run over them, like the guy in Tiananmen Square; those who make brave speeches behind the barricades, like the students in Paris in 1968; and those, like me, who chew dirt.

In 1891, the Indians who remained everywhere poked their heads aboveground and surveyed the desolation of their homelands and asked the question Indians had been asking since the beginning: What can we do next to survive?

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I now saw, in my situation, several points of similarity with that of the oxen. They were property, so was I; they were to be broken, so was I. Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken—such is life.

My poor mother," Douglass wrote, "like many other slave women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!"21

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

For a former slave and then an orator and an editor whose political consciousness had awakened with the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850, who had seen the fate of the slaves bandied about in one political crisis after another, and who had struggled to sustain hope in the face of the Dred Scott decision's egregious denials, a resolute stand by the North against secession and the Slave Power was hardly a sure thing.

In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff's characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: "It's a thing you don't talk about—not until you're well along with it. There are so many things that can go wrong with writing. I don't want to be one of those pseudo-literary people who are always writing something they never finish, or talking about writing something that they never start.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.

As a teenager I was both prurient and prudish. I was so full of self-loathing that in my mind it was unthinkable that any girl would ever want me. I hated everything about myself. The way I looked. How I spoke. Even how I thought. In my head I believed myself to be completely and utterly unworthy of love. My life had only just begun but I felt that I had already ruined it.

morning, they were forced to lift her up and carry her there. Myrtle refused to walk even though it

In his dreams, he would be a hero. In his life, he felt like a zero.

Wrestling was more her kind of sport.

Allah told me that it was what I was supposed to do. He told me to trick the white man, that getting close to him was the only way I was going to get back to Africa. And that I had to forsake all that got into my path.

struggle and striving always came before success, even in the dictionary.

My hopes was that by me writing my demons out, I'd be conquering one of the most important steps… admittance.

Although I smile a lot, it's because I hide a lot from my truth. The truth that some days I just feel like another lost nigga.

On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred.

A fractured, flawed man, he combined elements of George Borup, Robert Peary, and Lord Byron.

David Wellington

It turns out that dying in a blaze of glory is surprisingly easy, but living on, after your moment of triumph, is the hardest thing in the world.