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• The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Rocks, Awful, Horrible

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• It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Light, Darkness

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• Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

  Jewel

  Men, Eight, Average

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• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

  Jacob August Riis

  Fate, Long Ago, Doe

  Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

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• It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

  Golda Meir

  Believe, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Technique, Sometimes, Powder

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rights, Issues, States

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

  Billy Bragg

  Cutting, Reality, Giving

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• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Fall, Sleep

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

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• Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

  Joel Salatin

  Years, Land, Giving

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• It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Fighting, Tears

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• I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.

  Guy Pearce

  Emotional, Expression, Ideas

  "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here and Now" with Jeremy Hobson, nhpr.org. June 18, 2014.

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• Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

  Antony Sher

  Book, Writing, Play

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• Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Yield, Ideas, Two

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Broken, Joining

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• Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Mind, Horizon

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Agitation, Bourgeoisie

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Thinking, Serious

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Strong, Pride, Men

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.122, SUNY Press

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• Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

  Elijah Cummings

  Compassion, Color, America

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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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• The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.

  Robert F. Williams

  Country, White, Rights

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• The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.

  Romano L. Mazzoli

  Numbers, People, Immigration

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• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
  bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
  relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
  cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
  thousandfold more precious.

  Gardner Murphy

  Views, Mind, Curious

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• Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

  El DeBarge

  Disappointment, Writing, Second Chance

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