ROME UNO

"The main principle, however, which must guide us in the selection of a vocation is the welfare of humanity, our own perfection. One should not think that these two interests combat each other, that the one must destroy the other. Rather, man's nature makes it possible for him to reach his fulfillment only by working for the perfection and welfare of his society. If a person works only for himself he can perhaps be a famous scholar, a great wise man, a distinguished poet, but never a complete, genuinely great man. History calls those the greatest men who ennobled themselves by working for the universal. Experience praises as the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Religion itself teaches us that the ideal for which we are all striving sacrificed itself for humanity, and who would dare to destroy such a statement? When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes."
-Karl Marx ( Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation. ) 1835
"Take Bill Clinton's daughter. If she's willing to expose herself to learning about hiphop, what she has to do is leave the White House and come live in the South Bronx or Brooklyn. If she lives there-nobody knowing that it's the president's daughter or nothing-she has to meet a guy, he has to dog her out. Dis her. Then she got to meet a guy that she really likes and dis him. Then she has to go to a party, get caught up in a fight. Maybe she's not fighting, but see it. Feel the tension of it. She has to drive with three other black youths in a car, and they driving and the police are looking at them. She has to feel the tension with the black youth, and know what that shit feels like. If she can withstand that, then she too can become a hip hopper."
- KRS One