Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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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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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
