Quotes about Us history

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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
You Can See Russia From America!There are two small Islands in the middle of the Bering Straits that are 2.4 miles apart — Hank Bracker
Communism in AmericaIn the early 1920’s, fascism was undermining all vestiges of democracy in Europe and dictatorships w — Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past
Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spirit — Samuel Noah Kramer
So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the Nationa — Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds o — Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people shoul — Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken. — William Travis, at the Alamo
Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rig — Douglas A. Blackmon
A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of t — Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood b — Kristen Henderson
Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more — Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historia — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz