Black Quote by James Weldon Johnson

On the way we shed some tears. Every day we sacrifice. So we can be standing here. Oh what a hell of a life.

— John Legend

“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with…

— Mark Twain

We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we…

— Yitzhak Rabin

In sorrow, we rise I thirst for the tears that you wept all night so that even in sorrow, we will be as one…

— Anonymous

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

“We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the once kissed,…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us…

— Stefan Zweig

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I…

— Lucretia Mott

Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts.…

— Edward Joseph Young

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

— Joel Osteen

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through…

— Lee Roberson

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

— Francis A Walker