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The choice that you face is that you either continue to be able to make a contribution to the struggle or not. Joe Slovo
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, you don’t deserve to win. Fred Hampton
All over the world people are struggling against tyranny. How to Start a Revolution, Current 2011
Whether you win or lose a battle in the long run doesn’t matter: the question is did you fight it hard. Tony Benn, Last Will & Testament ***** Youtube 1.31.36
Delacroix was right. It is the struggle that matters. Not the outcome. I was where I should have been that Saturday in front of the Paris Opera House. Yes, our cries were not heard. Chris Hedges, ‘Only the Struggle Matters’, Truthdig online 2019
Yes, it may be futile. But the fight is what makes us human. It gives us dignity. It affirms life in the face of death. ‘This eternal combat’ brings with it, as the painter knew, a strange kind of consolation that lifts us up to the level of our despair. ibid.
We all know that around the world workers never got anything without struggle, without perseverance, and without fighting until the end. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, cited The Edge of Democracy, Netflix 2019
We seek the support of all political groups and protection of the government, which is also our government, in our struggle. For too many years we have been treated like the lowest of the low. Our wages and working conditions have been determined from above, because irresponsible legislators who could have helped us, have supported the rancher’s argument that the plight of the Farm Worker was a ‘special case’. They saw the obvious effects of an unjust system, starvation wages, contractors, day hauls, forced migration, sickness, illiteracy, camps and sub-human living conditions, and acted as if they were irremediable causes. The farm worker has been abandoned to his own fate – without representation, without power – subject to mercy and caprice of the rancher. We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference. To the politicians we say that the years are gone when the farm worker said nothing and did nothing to help himself. From this movement shall spring leaders who shall understand us, lead us, be faithful to us, and we shall elect them to represent us. We shall be heard. Cesar Chavez, The Plan of Delano, 1965
The struggle for freedom and independence never is completely over. Noam Chomsky
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favour freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
‘In 1984 I was part and privilege to be a party to the greatest struggle on Earth.’ Pride 2014 starring Bill Nighy & Imelda Staunton & Dominic West & Paddy Considine & Andrew Scott & George MacKay & Joseph Gilgun & Ben Schnetzer & Menna Trussler et al, director Matthew Warchus, Arthur Scargill on tele
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia, or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. Christopher Hitchens, Love Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. Harvey Milk
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
There’s no place to go. We’re going to have to turn and we’re going to have to confront Big Brother and we’re going to have to struggle if we’re going to maintain our individual liberties and freedom. Jim Marrs
The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free. Utah Phillips
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. Ayn Rand, Anthem
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell
The way to change it was the exact opposite of waiting to see if a scientific experiment would work out. It was for human beings to involve themselves in the struggle on the side of the oppressed. Marx’s life was a model of that involvement. In his youth, in quick succession, he was thrown out of Germany, Belgium and France, because he threw himself into the struggles of workers in all three countries. In France he associated closely with the fighting elements in the working class, and never forgot his admiration for them. Finally in 1849, aged 31, he came to England (where there was no immigration control) and settled here for the rest of his life. Paul Foot, article ‘Karl Marx: The Best Hated Man’
It is this determination to seize power from the ruling class and transfer it to the people as a whole that differentiates the present political struggle from all those that have gone before. Sir Stafford Cripps, 1933
We like to believe it is the absence of struggle in the way we live. Lost Horizon 1937 ***** starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt & H B Warner & Sam Jaffe & John Howard & Edward Everett Horton & Thomas Mitchell & Margo & Isabel Jewell & David Clyde & David Torrence et al, director Frank Capra, Chang
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
We have come too far – struggled too long – sacrificed too much and have too much left to do to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight. Lane Kirkland
Why does everything have to be a struggle? Can’t some people just say yes for once? House of Cards US s2e8: Chapter 21, Frank, Netflix 2014
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. Bishop Desmond Tutu
I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for, and to see realized. But my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela, speech Johannesburg 20th April 1964
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. Nelson Mandela
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. Billy Bragg
The great epic of the human condition is the struggle for freedom. It’s a struggle for freedom, the struggle for historical memory, the struggle not to forget. John Pilger, lecture Freedom Next Time
For many of us contraception is a struggle and it’s a struggle that goes on for decades. As young women were chucked on the pill and expected to get on with it. But when we go back with concerns often you don’t feel like you’re being heard. But a conversation is growing about the lack of support and the lack of information. Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution, Channel 4 2023
What’s been killing my livestock? … High emissions readings cause concern as Leixlip expands further. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid *****, Thomas’ collection of newspaper headlines, FSE films 2017/2019
I’ll tell you why we’re here, Thomas. Because these lands, this area, they have been identified … ibid. Thomas gets the visit
It’s not for sale … No way I’ll sit down with any of yas. ibid. repost
Radio interviewer: How much did he turn down?
Big knob: Ten million. ibid.
All the grounds raised in Mr Reid’s challenge fail. ibid. judgment
Exercising powers they have never exercised before … The overturning of the decision by the IDA. ibid. Thomas wins on appeal