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" It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. "
Audre Lorde
Color
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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. "
John F. Kennedy
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" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "
Rosa Luxemburg
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" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "
Andre Aciman
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" Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. "
Audre Lorde
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" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "
Sarah Bernhardt
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" I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. "
Queen Elizabeth II
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Heart
" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "
C. S. Lewis
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" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "
Abraham Lincoln
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" When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. "
Audre Lorde
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" The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. "
Helena Blavatsky
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" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "
Frank Sinatra
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Peace
Religion
" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Made
History
" Our visions begin with our desires. "
Audre Lorde
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" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "
David Miliband
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" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "
Vladimir Putin
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" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "
Marco Rubio
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" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "
Phil Anselmo
True
Music
Yourself
" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "
Molly Ivins
Struggle
America
History
" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "
William O. Douglas
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" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "
F. Sionil Jose
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" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "
George Santayana
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" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "
James Howard Kunstler
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" There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. "
Karl Popper
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" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "
Abraham Lincoln
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Heart
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" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "
John McCain
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Values
Identity
" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "
LeRoy Neiman
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" I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. "
David Christian
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" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "
Tom Wolfe
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