Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
~By Al Lewis ~
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
~By John Moody ~
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.
~By Guglielmo Marconi ~
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.
~By Alexander Brome ~
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
~By William J. H. Boetcker ~
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
~By Bai Ling ~
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
~By Bryan White ~
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
~By Og Mandino ~
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
~By Mark Rydell ~
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
~By Barack Obama ~
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
~By Al Lewis ~
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
~By Robert Burns ~
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
~By Albert Claude ~
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
~By Nick Clooney ~
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
~By Susannah York ~
It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
~By J. T. Walsh ~
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
~By Holly Near ~
My life is a struggle.
~By Voltaire ~
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
~By Barry White ~
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
~By William J. Clinton ~
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
~By John Breaux ~
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
~By Eino Leino ~
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
~By Christine Lavin ~
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
~By Scott Stapp ~
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
Mankind advances only through struggle.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
~By Ian Botham ~
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
~By Danny Glover ~
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
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.
~By Maxine Waters ~
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
~By Jim McDermott ~
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~By John Burroughs ~
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
~By John Astin ~
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
~By Ty Cobb ~
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
~By Andrew Bernstein ~
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
~By Alan Paton ~
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
~By Douglas Haig ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
~By Richard Pryor ~
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
~By Young Buck ~
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
~By Richard Pryor ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
~By Ed Harris ~
And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
~By Simone Weil ~
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
~By Iris Chang ~
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
~By James Cagney ~
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~By Fidel Castro ~
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
~By Rebecca West ~
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