Struggle Quotes - Page 15

• Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

  Malcolm X

  Culture, Weapons, Indispensable

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  Carl Bernstein

  People, House, Black

  Carl Bernstein (1989). “Loyalties: A Son's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

  Robert McKee

  Talking, Balance, Students

  "The Real McKee" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2003.

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• The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

  Eric Hoffer

  Shelter, Poverty, Desperate

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

  William Kamkwamba

  Thinking, People, Gone

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• Everything's been a struggle for me.

  Juliana Hatfield

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Impact, People, Records

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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• I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

  Ann Romney

  People, Certain, Knows

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• The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with

  Gary Inrig

  Issues, Deals

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• Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Fighting, Kind, Life Is

  "Q & A with Haile Gebrselassie". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Essentials, Three

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.181, Best Books on

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• The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

  William Ralph Inge

  Games, Life Is, Prize

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• Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

  Euripides

  Knowledge, Skills, Effort

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Long, Use, Alive

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• The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Triumph, Conservative

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• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Evil

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Opportunity, Should Have, Further Education

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• I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

  Scott Caan

  Who I Am, Want, Financial

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Party, Army

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• Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

  George Brett

  People, League, Succeed

  Interview with C. Trent Rosecrans, www.cbssports.com. July 8, 2012.

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• In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

  Willard Gaylin

  Safety, Survival, Pitfalls

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• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Heart, Air, Goes On

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• I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

  Ving Rhames

  Blessed, Actors, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Hands, Class, Fearless

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Play, Roles, Minorities

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