"It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul."

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#Soul Quotes #Arms Quotes #Our Actions Quotes

“Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nutsâ€”it's when those who shouldn't, do.”
“Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.”
“If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.”
“I don't believe in writing people off.”
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.”
“Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.”
“If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.”
“Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.”

Source : 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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