Rodney King (1969–2012) American taxi driver and police brutality victim
King appealing for calm during the Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)
Source: Cujo
Rodney King (1969–2012) American taxi driver and police brutality victim
King appealing for calm during the Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)
Mark Hurd (1957–2019) American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle
Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" https://bbr.baylor.edu/mark-hurd-fa06/ (Fall 2006)
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001) American activist
Interview with Louis Theroux on Weird Weekends (2 June 1999)
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Context: Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other. This is why we still have many disputes and conflicts in the world. Technology tools help us to gather and disseminate information, but we also need qualities like tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between peoples and nations.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…
Robert A. Heinlein book Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 130
“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
Norman G. Finkelstein (1953) American political scientist and author
Other sourced statements <br class="br">Source: Talk at Santa Cruz, CA http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=600, October 23, 2006