Quote by Alex Haley
History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley

History is written by the winners. – Alex Haley

Other quotes by Alex Haley

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. – Alex Haley

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Hope
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley

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Family
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

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Society
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History
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History

The historian amputates reality. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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History

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nations founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of Americas storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. – Joe Barton

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History

Random Quotes

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Masses

You go to a show, and theres no food at all, so if youre doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny. – Kate Moss

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Food

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz

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History

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. – R. D. Laing

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Change