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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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Hope
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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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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. – Brian Eno

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History

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. – Norodom Sihanouk

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History

Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

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History

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. – Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

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History

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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. – Frederick Buechner

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being. – Michel de Montaigne

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Any good music must be an innovation. – Les Baxter

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