"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."

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Source : "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

Mignon McLaughlin

#Time Quotes #Years Quotes

“The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire.”
“Being faithful doesnâ€™t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.”
“At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 10, 2011
“What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.”

Source : "Blumenthal, Thune, Kinzinger". "Face the Nation", www.cbsnews.com. May 25, 2014.
“No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.”
“I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”

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