Beeban Kidron Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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I want to go down in history.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
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To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.
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Only at the very center of pain or joy was one wholly wretched, wholly joyful. There was only one hour of the night in which sunset or dawn was not present to the mind in memory or hope, only one hour of the day when the sun seemed neither rising nor declining, and the intensity of those hours dulled and blinded.
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I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
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If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
