Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

All I want to do is change the world.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.

He [Jacob Riis] had the most flaming intensity of passion for righteousness.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

I have to continue to work, to keep going, to always fight. This is the way.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

We need to keep fighting for every ball.

I fight with a lot of heart.

You have to fight for the things you want.

Walls don't fall without effort.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

Anything worthwhile is tough.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.