"Happy the people whose annals are tiresome."

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Baron de Montesquieu

#People Quotes #History Quotes

“This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
“Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.”

Source : Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.297, University of Chicago Press
“The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.”
“It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.”
“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”

Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.112, Vintage
“Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.”

Source : "Jim Cooper Uses The N-Word To Illustrate His Call For A Voting Rights Amendment" by Preston Maddock, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.”

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