“The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.”— W. E. B. Du Bois
“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”— Sherman Alexie
“The hitter's lot is not a happy one. No matter how confident he is, there is a consciousness in his mind that he is battling against odds.”— Roger Angell
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”— G. I. Gurdjieff
“Independence is not the end of the struggle, but the beginning of a new one.”— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão
“We are not judged by the heights we have reached, but by the depths from which we have come.”— Benjamin E. Mays
“To be a woman in the Islamic Republic of Iran is to be at the center of a never-ending battle.”— Azar Nafisi