Eric Foner Quotes
The United States was not the only nation to experience emancipation in the nineteenth century. Neither plantation slavery nor abolition were unique to the United States. But Reconstruction was.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')
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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?
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Today more than ever communities of color must join together and use our collective voice to secure an equitable democracy for us and future generations!
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The United States was not the only nation to experience emancipation in the nineteenth century. Neither plantation slavery nor abolition were unique to the United States. But Reconstruction was.
