Rubin Carter quotes
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“The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.”
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“Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost”
-- Rubin CarterSource : Rubin Carter (2011). “The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472”, p.142, Chicago Review Press
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“To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.”
-- Rubin CarterSource : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2014.
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“Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.”
-- Rubin CarterSource : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.
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“You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.”
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“Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.”
-- Rubin CarterSource : Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press
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“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”
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Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
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“I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.”
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“I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.”
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