"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."

-- Daryl Gates

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“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.”
“Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.”
“I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.”

Source : "Natalie Cole: Faith in Her Heavenly Father". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.
“What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.”
“I'm not an alcoholic. I just drink that way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Christian Finnegan from Jun 26, 2013
“Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.”
“The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.”

Source : Elizabeth Blair Lee (1991). “Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee”
“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.”

Source : Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.34, Penguin Books India

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