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" When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang. "

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" A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. "

Emile Durkheim

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Religion

Society

" 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. "

" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "

" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "

" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. "

" History proves that the white man is a devil. "

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

Nancy Pelosi

War

History

" Time is my greatest enemy. "

" If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. "

" Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. "

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. "

" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "

" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "

" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

Maya Angelou

Rise

History

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Makers

Made

History

" What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? "

" Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand. "

" I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. "

" Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents. "

" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "

" The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. "

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "