Fought Quotes

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

I fought fire with oil.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.