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Hurley Goodall Quotes

1927–2021 United States

Hurley Charles Goodall (May 23, 1927 – May 12, 2021) was an American author and politician who served in the Indiana House of Representatives from the 38th district as a member of the Democratic Party from 1978 to 1992. Prior to his tenure in the state legislature he served on the school board in Muncie, Indiana, where he was its first black member.

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It sounds like typical Orr, a lotta bombast and not saying too much.

People are doing it anyway. We're making criminals out of people who aren't criminals.

I think it's a significant event in the history of our country that the film was even made.

Organized labor is the only group in Democratic politics in Delaware County who can say, 'we want to find the best candidate we can and quit bloodying them up in inner-party squabbles.'

I was awed at the power of an idea whose time has come. An idea is more powerful than all the nuclear weapons, bombers and tanks that a country has at its disposal. An idea that people are changing the world today, not the weapons.

Being jailed for 27 years, Mandela's one of those rare people who have the ability to rise to the occasion. Circumstances thrust him to the forefront, and he has responded with an innate ability to lead a nation."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hurley Goodall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.