#birmingham

On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be free, there was something important she had to do. "I want to go to jail," Audrey had told her mother. Since Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks thought that was a good idea, they helped her get ready. ↗

— Cynthia Levinson

#civil-rights-movement #freedom

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. ↗

— Louise Brown

#because #birmingham #courses #dozens #every

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. ↗

— Lee Child

#grew #i #made #them #things

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#cause #clubs #different #england #following

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball #birmingham #black #came #guys

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#come #concept #i #late-night #marketing

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. ↗

— Willie Mays

#called #clock #enjoy #field #game

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days. ↗

— Willie Mays

#black #days #i #lot #making

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birmingham #broken #come #completely #cope

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#germany #hitler #hungary #jews #peace