Quotes about Struggle
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
- Isabel Allende
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
- George W. Bush
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
- John Calvin
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
- Jimmy Carter
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
- Anne Frank
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
- St. Augustine
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.
- Margaret Atwood
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
- Malcolm X
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson