"To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."

-- Huey Newton

#Sea Quotes #People Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.”
“It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud, gay man.”

Source : "Orlando Cruz becomes boxing's first openly gay man" by Bob Velin, www.usatoday.com. October 3, 2012.
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”
“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnStrung”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
“To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.”
“One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.”
“It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.”

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