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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
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"Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress."

People Struggle Organization
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Struggle

"In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both"

Order Struggle Humanity
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads."

Dream Order Struggle
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations."

Fall Opportunity Struggle
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Struggle

"It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle."

Responsibility Struggle Essentials
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed."

Children War Struggle
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them."

Eye Views Struggle
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"I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another."

Thinking Believe Struggle
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment."

Struggle Compassion Commitment
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind."

People Mind Struggle
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure."

Spiritual Struggle Keys
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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply."

Years Struggle Healthy
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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair."

Struggle Brain Frustration
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle."

Sleep Struggle Anxiety
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Corey Smith Musician
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"I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles."

Thinking Believe Struggle
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