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" Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. "

Eddie Bernice Johnson

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" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "

" In history, the millions win; that is democracy. "

Nawal El Saadawi

" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "

Alexander Smith

" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

Milton Friedman

" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

" Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. "

" I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques. "

Kelly Wearstler

" The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. "

" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "

History Repeats Itself

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "

" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "

Juan Antonio Samaranch

" We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing. "

Eddie Bernice Johnson

" If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. "

" No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. "

" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

" Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. "

" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "

Sachin Tendulkar

" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

" If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. "

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "

" When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies. "

" Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. "

" Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. "