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

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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. – 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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Other Quotes from
History
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In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that theyre occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the peoples will is what achieves victory. – Hassan Nasrallah

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History

History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. – William Stubbs

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History

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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History
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. – Harvey Milk

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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)

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October

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Faith

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. – Nelson Algren

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