Columbus Quotes - Page 8

• When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

  Edward Teller

  Looks, Purpose, Modern Life

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• Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

  Sigmund Freud

  Travel, Home, America

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• So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.

  James W. Loewen

  White, Color, Europe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.85, The New Press

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• They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
  When he said the world was round.

  Ira Gershwin

  Public Opinion, World, Said

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Earth, World

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• Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

  N.D. Wilson

  Beach, People, East

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.186, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?

  Jack Kerouac

  Childhood, Different, Would Be

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