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“It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.”

Mind Self Struggle Clear Ignorance Mass Blue Glorious Heavenly Occupation Preaching Sustaining Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Hosea Ballou

“What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?”

Order Heaven Struggle Fate Ignorance Blind Mysterious Transition Fullness Adverse

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.”

Ifs War Might Winning Grows Struggle Ignorance Wake Up Flames Sunlight Casualties Can't Win

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.”

War Country Facts Political Left Millions Struggle Written Ignorance Terrible Skins Ran Coward Countrymen Disloyalty

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

Men Two Struggle Mankind Ignorance Son Angel Remains Beast

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry