David Garrow Quotes

I'm a pro forma Bernie Sanders donor. In years past, when Michael Harrington was still alive, I was a very active member of Democratic Socialists of America.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Health

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Ugly

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • History
  • Past

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• The business of America is business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Business
  • America

• I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Past
  • Present
  • Connect

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Time
  • Country
  • America

• The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Equality

• I'm a pro forma Bernie Sanders donor. In years past, when Michael Harrington was still alive, I was a very active member of Democratic Socialists of America.

  

  David Garrow
  • America
  • Past