#struggle

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #dedicated #every #every step #exertions

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#going #human #human nature #keep #maintain

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#curiosity #force #human #know #natural

In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#crucial role #fight #in my opinion #long-term #nato

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#definitely #gay #had #i #knew

The triumph can't be had without the struggle. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#struggle #triumph #without

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#beautiful #beautiful women #cars #clothes #dollars