“I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.”
Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer
"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)
Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
“I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.”
Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer
"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Regarding the Vietnam War and conscription (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68
“I don't have the stomach for this anymore. I don't have anything to fight for anymore.”
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/06/12/1390287.htm
On boxing
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Alec Lightwood, to Jace, Clary, Simon, and Isabelle, pg. 435
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“I wanted to study the enemy on his home grounds.”
Joseph Kasa-Vubu (1910–1969) President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1910-1969)
The new leaders of Africa https://archive.org/details/newleadersofafri0000unse/page/150/mode/2up Rolf Italiaander, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1690, p 147. Kasa-Vubu explains why in 1942 Leopoldville, he became a clerk at the Belgian financial administration.
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
Power : How To Get It, How To Use It (1976)