Suheir Hammad Quotes

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

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.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Never give up, no matter what.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.