I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free
Of what in other worlds shall be - and given
In beauty by our God, to those alone
Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven
Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,
That high tone of the spirit which hath striven
Though not with Faith - with godliness - whose throne
With desperate energy 't hath beaten down;
Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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