“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.” WorldWayHappensFatherClassStruggleSeeingRageImmigrantsTiedWorking ClassTied Up Author:Dennis Lehane
“It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.” MenHappensBoysStruggleAwarenessRaisesFinishedBeing TrueHarshSweeping Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.” KnowsKindHappensJobsStruggleBreadDriversOne TimeHomelessTruckTaxiTruck Driver Author:Morgan Freeman
“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.” NeedsImportantWarEndsHardHappensDiesPeaceStruggleHard WorkOne DayIdealsImportant ThingsConvincedAriseBanner Author:Kathe Kollwitz
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.” MenWellsKindPersonsLongHappensAmericaRememberYoungFallNextCommunitySleepSecretStruggleTeacherDependsYoung ManTonightWrestling Author:Barack Obama
“We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!” PeopleIfsProblemHappensClassStruggleViolenceMassSocialismPlatesClass Struggle Author:Vladimir Lenin
“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.” MenHappensForceWaterJusticeLaughingStruggleSeeingTroubleHe ManHotWaveStrikesMidstRemedySailDistressExhaustedUnseenWrecksReefsHot Headed Author:Aeschylus
“As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.” IfsLooksCharacterHappensJobsActorsChallengesStruggleVulnerabilityAvenuesChallenge Yourself Author:David Boreanaz
“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.” FeelsHappensPainSufferingTurnsAcceptingStruggleStrangeWillingExperienceThings HappenStrange Things Author:Brenda Shoshanna