John Hall

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“I would never trade however long I was with you, for anything in the world, because to me, you are the world. You are my world.”
― Natalie Ward, I Love You to Death