American History Quotes - Page 9

• American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.

  Dumas Malone

  Men, Two, Events

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Determination, Past

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• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  Hari Kunzru

  Party, Night, Evening

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• I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

  Johnny Vegas

  Song, Clever, Pie

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• History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Land, History, African American

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Bored, Simplicity

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, books.google.ru. November 10, 2011.

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• American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

  John F. Kennedy

  Alive, Growing, Unfinished

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• Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Kings, Men

  "Leith Anderson, Russell Moore, Other Faith Leaders Ask Obama to Reject Gov't Report Saying Religious Freedom Is Code for Discrimination" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. October 12, 2016.

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• There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Relationship, Growing Up, Women

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

  Donald Trump

  Cabinets, Democrat, Obstruction

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, Leaving, Slavery

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

  James W. Loewen

  Native American, Giving, Choices

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Expression, Resentment

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Latin, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

  Jill Stein

  President, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Government, Keys, Progress

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. China went into the World Trade Organization and agreed to play by certain rules. Instead, they are illegally subsidizing their exports, manipulating their currency, stealing all of our intellectual property, using sweatshops, using pollution havens. What happens is, our businesses and workers are playing that game with two hands tied behind their back.

  Peter Navarro

  Mistake, Political, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Gentleman, Great Depression

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

  Paul Kengor

  Father, President, Founding

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

  Bill Moyers

  Election

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• I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

  Denzel Washington

  August, Long, Firsts

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

  Jonathan Chait

  Mean, Fighting, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

  Sam Abell

  Taken, America, Lifetime

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

  Barack Obama

  People, Debate, Periods

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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