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History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley

History is written by the winners. – Alex Haley

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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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Family
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. РAntonio P̩rez, Aforismos

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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. – Hippolyte Taine

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