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Ernie Chambers

"Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him."

Source : "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

Ernie Chambers

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“I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.”
“Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.”
“The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.”
“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be â€˜desertâ€™), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happenâ€¦”
“My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.”

Source : Anthony John Patrick Kenny (1980). “The five ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' proofs of God's existence”
“The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.”
“And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?”

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