Common Struggle Quotes

• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

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  Coretta Scott King

  Religious   Believe   Struggle  

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

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  John Hockenberry

  Struggle   People   Islam  

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• We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

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  Jalal Talabani

  Struggle   Iraq   Trying  

  "Kurds Organizing Anti-Hussein Forces - Sidebar For a Quiet Colonel, A Moving Role as Santa Claus". Boston Globe, October 25, 1992.

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• Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

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  Leonid Brezhnev

  Believe   Struggle   Class  

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• A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.

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  Diosdado Macapagal

  Struggle   Oneness   Blood  

  Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”

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• There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

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  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Struggle   Machines   Earth  

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.280, SUNY Press

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• If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

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  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Struggle   Men   Goal  

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• Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

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  Paul Robeson

  Freedom   Struggle   Heart  

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• In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.

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  Adolf Hitler

  Religious   Struggle   Catholic  

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

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  Max Lerner

  Struggle   Men   Religion  

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