#fought

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#enlighten #flashes #fought #grief #i

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#fought #had #led #lessons #men

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#fought #had #i #immigration #restriction

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next? ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#against #back #came #catholic #catholics

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#alone #america #break #centuries #cliches

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#end #even #fought #lives #lost

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#chances #fought #grounds #others #principle

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#battles #built #cheerful #cut #faith

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures