Stephen Walker > Quotes

“Thank you John’.”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“With the car now sounding healthy, Don McCrea was able to rev the engine. He remembers Ian Paisley Senior looking pleased that he had been able to help: ‘There was Ian beaming away and in his best clerical voice he said, “Well young Hume, that is real power,” and John just leaned over and in a quiet voice said, “No Ian, that is power-sharing.”’21”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“Gagarin had just flown around the world. Now he needed a horse and cart. To those familiar with only slightly later TV footage of NASA spacecraft returning to earth [...] Gagarin's return is in a league of its own, an exercise of the surreal with a uniquely Russian twist.”
― Stephen Walker, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

“this is a person who has given his life for doing the right thing and”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland today that justifies the taking of a single human life.41”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“Ireland’s Greatest’.”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“trial in Germany raised questions about his knowledge of the Dora concentration camp inmates used to assemble his V-2 missiles in horrific conditions. In 1976 a proposal to award him a Presidential Medal of Freedom was rejected because of his Nazi background. ‘He has given valuable service to”
― Stephen Walker, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

“An unorganized crowd! And Krushchev did it because instinctively he grasped the overwhelming emotional power of this moment for his people. He grasped that for a nation that had lost some twenty-seven million of its citizens just sixteen years earlier in the Second World War, many of whose cities had been devastated, much of whose industry had been obliterated, Gagarin's space flight meant everything. It gave hope and colour to people's lives, purpose to their sacrifices, pride in their nationhood and their political creed. For a nation so brimming with insecurities in its relationship with the west, and especially with America - insecurities that Khrushchev understood only too well- it gave a massive, euphoric injection of confidence.”
― Stephen Walker, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

“nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’.”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“The time was 08.27. Up on his platform Ivanovsky patted the Vostok one last time for luck. "We loved our Vostok," he wrote later. "We loved it with that love that comes with an inevitable parting." Then he descended to the ground.”
― Stephen Walker, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

“Ireland’s most tireless champion for civil rights and its most eloquent voice for non-violence, John Hume’.”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“History will rightly judge you to be the architect of peace.’17”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“you cannot eat a flag’.”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader

“you could put him anywhere,”
― Stephen Walker, John Hume The Persuader