"Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies."

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Source : Taylor Branch (2007). “Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Taylor Branch

#Eye Quotes #Effort Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.”
“What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.”
“I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.”
“Each of us has to face the matterâ€”either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.”
“I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.”
“I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.”
“Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.”
“Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.”

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