Quotes about American history

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Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core — Fred Whitehead, Free-Thought on the American Frontier
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his dest — Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasp — Clarence Darrow
On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had b — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
History is the archaeology of the present and future. — Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
America is fascinated by crime. — Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All
An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. — DaShanne Stokes
A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: — Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency of the massacre — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
[whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Ordinary British soldiers harbored several strange preconceptions of their own. Some were surprised that the colonists w — Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitat — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the — Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. — Markham Shaw Pyle
For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prair — Markham Shaw Pyle
Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less — Cathleen Margaret, Bebop in the Small of Her Back
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious bl — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
The 1790 Naturalization law determined that "free white persons" could naturalize after two years of residency, and esta — Pratheepan Gulasekaram, The New Immigration Federalism
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad