Struggle For Freedom Quotes:

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

- John Legend

source: John Legend's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

topic: Struggle, Justice, Struggle For Freedom

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

source: Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.109, Heinemann

topic: Struggle, Sacrifice, Fighting, Militant, Struggle For Freedom

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

- Coretta Scott King

source: Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds (2017). “My Life, My Love, My Legacy”, p.330, Henry Holt and Company

topic: Inspiring, Freedom, Struggle, Struggle For Freedom, Black Women Inspirational

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Struggle, Mean, People, Struggle For Freedom

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Rain, Struggle For Freedom, Moral Struggle

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.66, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Struggle, Public Opinion, Resistance, Struggle For Freedom

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Struggle, Men, Survival, Struggle For Freedom

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Freedom, Power, Demand, Labor Union, Struggle For Freedom

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Freedom, Doe, Delight, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Freedom Of Expression

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.931, Best Books on

topic: Military, War, Struggle, Struggle For Freedom, Vietnam War

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

- Arthur Henderson

source: John Legend's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

topic: Country, Struggle, Justice, Struggle For Freedom

Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.64, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Struggle, Men, Soul, Struggle For Freedom, Lifeless

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

- Barack Obama

topic: Struggle, Pride, Men, Struggle For Freedom

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

- Oriana Fallaci

topic: Struggle, Freedom Of Religion, Struggle For Freedom

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

topic: Struggle, Men, Burning, Struggle For Freedom, Charcoal

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

topic: Philosophy, Struggle, People, Social Contract, Hobbes

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. Celtic Tiger is my finest work to date. Budapest is one of my favourite cities in the world and I can think of no greater place to preview my new show.

- Michael Flatley

source: "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Struggle, Thinking, Cities, Celtic, Struggle For Freedom

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.171, Vintage

topic: Struggle, Historical, West, Struggle For Freedom

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

- James A. Garfield

source: Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.576, Best Books on

topic: Struggle, Long, Church, Struggle For Freedom

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

- Elgin Groseclose

topic: Struggle, Wealth, Royalty, Struggle For Freedom, Authoritarianism

Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Friendship, Believe, Struggle, Struggle For Freedom, Befriending

In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

- Margarita Engle

topic: Latin, Struggle, Inspiration, Struggle For Freedom

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Inspiring, Struggle, Learning, Struggle For Freedom, Support Women

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Christian, Struggle, Love Is, Struggle For Freedom, Christian Ethics

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

topic: Struggle, Party, Government, Struggle For Freedom

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

- Gelsey Kirkland

topic: Dance, Struggle, Hands, Struggle For Freedom, Virtuosity

The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Struggle, Inspiration, Long, Struggle For Freedom