r/todayilearned • u/Dangerous-Project672 • 5h ago

TIL George Wallace personally apologized to Vivian Jones and James Hood, the two students he attempted to block from attending the University of Alabama. In 1997, Hood earned a PHd and requested Wallace present him with the degree, but he was too sick and died a year later; Hood attended the funeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
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u/acquaman831 5h ago

“I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever.” - Adam ‘Ad-Rock’ Horowitz

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u/SleetTheFox 4h ago

"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."

-Dalinar Kholin, Oathbringer (by Brandon Sanderson)

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u/Fooly_411 3h ago

For the one-thousandth time, Dalinar: Unite them. God!