- Nov 07, 2020
Fight Quotes
Historical words on standing your ground.
This collection of fight quotes includes historical rhetoric about fighting for a united Europe and the case against tolerating imperialism at home while opposing it abroad. Several reflect mid-20th-century debates about liberty that still read as pointed today. Related content appears in our Fighter quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false. But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the local population will turn against us - and make the fight against violent extremists even more difficult.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020