#struggle

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots. ↗

— Rudolf Rocker

#freedom #government #privileges #rights #struggle

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. ↗

— James Gavin

#atheist #christ #christian #fair #gavin

The path i walk lights up in flames ↗

— R. Karim

#life-and-death #strength #struggle #death

That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#fight #life #struggle #unemployment #courage

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#struggle #life

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#poetry #struggle #life

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#struggle #life

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#inspirational-life #life #moving-forward #strength #struggle