"The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Moving Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Climbing had captured my soul.”

Source : Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.19, Penguin
“Don't be afraid to be different.”
“Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.”
“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled,”
“Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.”
“Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?”
“Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.”

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