We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do. We paid more attention to the girls than to King.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, on watching a 1962 speech that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave in Barbour’s hometown of Yazoo City. (via officialssay)

Only one of a ton of choice quotes in this story.

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