Oscar Handlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
-- Oscar Handlin

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In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
-- Oscar Handlin

#Expectations #Outsiders #Immigration

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Oscar Handlin famous quotes

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