"I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Hunger Quotes #Prison Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.”

Source : "How to Become a Bad Theoretical Physicist". Utrecht University Official Website, www.staff.science.uu.nl.
“If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable,”
“The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.”
“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
“A silly row which got out of hand.”
“Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.”

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