Quotes from Rubin Carter

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

To every human being in prison, guilty or innocent, I would say that everything depends upon attitude. The physical body is the vehicle in which we traverse life, but our attitude is our steering wheel. In prison, people find themselves at the bottom of human existence. What a prisoner must say is, OK, whatever I've done in life has led me to where I am today. Therefore, if I want to get out of prison and stay out, I've got to turn around and go back the other way.

The old monk looked amusedly at the young one and said, "Perhaps it is you who should tell me how it feels to carry a beautiful woman. I put the woman down back there by the river, but you are obviously still carrying her.

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.