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John Hume

"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

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"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Asa Don Brown

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Asa Don Brown

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Asa Don Brown

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Asa Don Brown

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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Asa Don Brown

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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Asa Don Brown

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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Asa Don Brown

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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Asa Don Brown

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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John Hume
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."

Agreement

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John Hume
"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

Party

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John Hume
"In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system."

Change

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John Hume
"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments."

Family

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John Hume
"Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control."

People

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John Hume
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

Challenge

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John Hume
"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."

Opportunity

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John Hume
"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity."

Power

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John Hume
"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless."

Politics

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John Hume
"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."

Government

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