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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894Related quotes
“I am a fighter and not a quitter!”
Peter Mandelson (1953) British Labour politician
Jason Beattie, Jon Hibbs, "Triumphant Mandelson hails new Labour victory", Scotsman, 8 June 2001, p. 5.
Acceptance speech after re-election as MP for Hartlepool in the 2001 General Election.
Context: Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in tatters, apparently never to be part of political life again. Well they underestimated Hartlepool and they underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter!My political opponents can have their pound of flesh, and they do, but they will not eat into of my beliefs, what I stand for and have done in politics. That is the inner steel in me.
Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes
Source: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 12 : Man's Reason
H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) Indian politician
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
Joe Calzaghe (1972) Welsh boxer
Calzaghe before his fight against Mikkel Kessler of Denmark http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7062510.stm.
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-sxSipAMs
https://thefamouscelebrity.com/mike-tyson-wiki/
On boxing
Roza Otunbayeva (1950) Soviet diplomat
"The Situation Is Not Easy" by Lally Weymouth in Newsweek (26 April 2010)
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
But the fighter still remains.
The Boxer
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Doin' It Again, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (1990)
Context: Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?
