"The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present."

-- David P. Thelen

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“In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.”
“You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ainâ€™t my President â€“ had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. Sheâ€™s going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now Iâ€™m going to sing it for yâ€™allâ€¦”
“It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.”
“It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it”
“All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.”
“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”

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