"The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about"

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Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

John Hume

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.”
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
“Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
“When you are faced with a test of faith, stay within the safety and security of the household of God. There is always a place for you here. No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.”
“All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.”
“Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.”
“I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.”
“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.”

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