"When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history."

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Source : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 14, 1998.

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #American History Quotes

“I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.”
“There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.”
“That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.”
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books
“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”
“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”
“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”
“If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.”

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