49 quotes found
“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.”
“In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.”
“What is the life of one person worth? Although the Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is not suicidal, life to him is relatively cheap, after all he had his half-brother murdered. The countries population ...”
“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the env...”
“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism la carte.”
“War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.”
“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met.Fire and shipwreck orphan us 140 years apart. We escape to imagination to survive our fate. There, midst flights of whi...”
“The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.”
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than...”
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round . . . The sky is round and I have heard the earth is r...”
“For us to change history, we first need to change the future.”
“Benjamin Franklin was a real tomcat, no woman was safe from his lightening bolt”
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the worlds oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance, endurance, and survival. They mutinie...”
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The...”
“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.”
“What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Mar...”
“Nations need to constantly reaffirm their historical roots to maintain their political ideals. Motion pictures were one of the media used by nations to accommplish this task. The question one must ...”
“The colonial films of the golden age of Hollywood were a clear proclamation of the Consensus historians' interpretation of the facts. These motion pictures encouraged audiences to believe that our ...”
“So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which personally I think is rather a m...”
“Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say - that American propserity was ill-gotten and selectiv...”
