"Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about."

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Lorraine Hansberry

#Struggle Quotes #Giving Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur”
“At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.”
“I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.”
“While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.”
“Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.”
“If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.”

Source : Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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