Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Hope is a function of struggle.
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.