Quotes About Montgomery

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of how much those before us gave for basic human rights.

I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.

General Montgomery noted that the soldiers in his charge "carry the spirit of freedom into the field, and think for themselves," and that they even "felt it necessary to call a sort of town meeting" to plan any maneuvers. They demonstrated such a "leveling spirit, such an equality among them, that the officers have no authority," Montgomery reported. "The privates are all generals.

Now it was close to sunset and the earth was beginning to cool off in the manner of eternity and office girls were returning like penguins from Montgomery Street.

King remarked, thinking back to Montgomery four years earlier. "If there is one lesson experience has taught us … it is that when you have found by the help of God a correct course, a morally sound objective, you do not equivocate, you do not retreat—you struggle to win a victory.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

when Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman decided to leave the family cattle business in Bavaria, they chose by instinct or luck to settle in Montgomery, Alabama, a hub of the cotton trade. The

By contrast, Rice said, "Negro ministers, unfortunately have...very often had a bad influence. The Negro minister [Martin Luther King Jr.] in Montgomery, Alabama, who led in the organization of a Negro boycott of the buses, led that fight, unfortunately, not as a Christian trying to make good Christians and to lead in Christian understanding between the races. He led that boycott as a modernist and a socialist who was more concerned about racism than he was about Christianity, I fear.

My country," Prince Bernhard observed, "can never again afford the luxury of another Montgomery success.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence

But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things;

and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don't want to preach—this isn't any time for it.

Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots!

I've no doubt, enjoying himself same as ever. Just like a man.

Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her knee, looking, in the kind dusk, as girlish as a mother of many has any right to be; and the beautiful gray-green eyes, gazing down the harbour road, were as full of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever.

At least it removed her dread of being laughed at, though the deeper hurt of an outraged ideal remained.

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

No, Diana, I am not killed, but I think I am rendered unconscious. Where? sobbed Carrie Sloane. Oh, where, Anne?

It is the injustice that stings me. There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.