Henry Louis Gates Quotes

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

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• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Free
  • Army

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Our

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Revolution
  • Understand

• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
  • Army

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Son
  • Door
  • Pressure

• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • School
  • Done
  • Age

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
  • Revolution

• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Powerful
  • Army
  • Psychology

• Becoming a father has changed everything. He Thiago comes first then everything else. It has also changed the way I see a match. Before if I lost or did something wrong I didn't talk to anyone for three or four days, until it passed. Now, I come home after a game, I see my son and everything is alright.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Home
  • Father
  • Game

• As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Kids
  • College

• Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Long
  • Night
  • Freedom

• It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Son
  • Revolution
  • Army