"Arthur Scargillâ€™s leadership of the minersâ€™ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the NUM as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader."

-- Jimmy Reid

#Fighting Quotes #Years Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.”
“Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.”
“No man or woman can live another's fate”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.”
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”
“My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances and distance to speak for them instead. How dangerous that was! How easy it must be to misinterpret a sigh or a look.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.46, Delacorte Press
“Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.”

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