Ramos has a tattoo, in English and borrowed from Nelson Mandela, that declares him the owner of an "unconquerable soul, master of my own destiny".
Often quoted, it speaks of the writer's "unconquerable soul," and includes these lines: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloodied, but unbowed.
Invictus summarizes it all: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul".
In any case, here's Henley's Victorian warhorse: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
The poem, which he read in prison and much later at the funeral of one of his sons, begins: "Out of the night that covers me,/ Black as the Pit from pole to pole,/ I thank whatever gods may be/ For my unconquerable soul".
Among those who paid tribute to him Friday was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who wrote on Twitter that he was an "unconquerable soul". Later, accepting a human rights award at a Capitol Hill ceremony, Clinton recalled first meeting Mandela in 1992 and visiting him several times over the years, including as secretary of state.
Despite constant money problems, he maintained, as George Bernard Shaw said, "an unconquerable gaiety of soul" that sustained him, and he was visited by such loyal friends as Max Beerbohm and Robert Ross, later his literary executor; he was also reunited with Douglas.
With the lovely "Zero de Conduite," the artist discovers the revolutionary impulse not in the "class struggle" but in the innate and unconquerable hunger, within every soul, for absolute freedom -- symbolized by a schoolboys' revolt in a French boarding school.
Her music crashes through the walls of indifference with unconquerable sound and immeasurable feeling.
Mr. Armendáriz shows his soulfulness again by giving his protagonist an unconquerable free-spiritedness.
Their leadership is headquartered in Pakistan, which makes them unconquerable.
