I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die and there will be no hope for Tibet after the Dalai Lama passes away.
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies and that's where I found my material in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired you don't come home your best self.
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
It's a struggle but that's why we exist so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves or their history all over again.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling stolen generations issues family relationships violence suicide prevention.
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
So my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
A constant struggle a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings is the price of all great achievements.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.