Eric Foner Quotes

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

Eric Foner

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• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Age
  • Audience
  • Group

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
  • Courage
  • Voice

• Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Spiritual

• As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Law
  • Conservative

• There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • She
  • Help

• I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.

  

  Larry David
  • Movie

• The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Book
  • Power
  • Future

• There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Knowledge

• At the end of the day, what difference does it make if you made 10 films or 18 films? You made 10 films, but you had a great relationship with your kids, or at least you did your best not to screw them up irrevocably, or you made 18, and they don't return your phone calls.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Plant

• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Reality
  • Logic

• People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

  

  Ali Hewson
  • People
  • Fashion

• There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Fear
  • Friendship

• I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Audience

• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • End
  • Destroy

• ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not because they are men or women or so on, but they were just given to people who have - who the organization believes has the capability to perform.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Control
  • Destroy
  • Republican