"I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence."

-- John Lewis

#Philosophy Quotes #Night Quotes #Years Quotes

“people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.”
“Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013
“Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.”
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.”

Source : "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.
“Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.”
“I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.”
“I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented”
“I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.”

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