Quotes about American history

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Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. — Todd Garlington
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the Uni — Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Not one thought entered my head that did not seem disloyal. I was ashamed, seeing their pride close up, as if for the fi — Lorene Cary, Black Ice
The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being s — George Packer
What is the life of one person worth? Although the Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is not suicidal, life to him is relatively — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear po — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams. — Regina Lee Blaszczyk, American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV (The American History) (American History Series)
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Fed — John P. Avlon
Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom he very much wanted t — Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had reached unfair conclus — Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working — Grover Cleveland
I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in Am — Amelia Boynton Robinson
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everyt — Chief Black Elk
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that th — Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded — Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back — Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and i — Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative — Daniel Hill, White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that bel — Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race