#struggle

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#claude #friendly #great #great love #love

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#during #early #i #married #radio

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #devoted #difficult #embarrassed #energy

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads. ↗

— Harriet Brown

#family #struggle #teenage-years #family