Taylor Branch famous quotes
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The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
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Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.
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And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.
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Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.
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Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
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Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
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Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
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Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
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