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Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systema

Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We dont expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. – Eric Liu

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Faith
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Eric Liu
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In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. – Eric Liu

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Equality
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Eric Liu
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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. – Eric Liu

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War
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History
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Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. – Elizabeth Edwards

Category:
History

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

Category:
History

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. – Francois Mitterrand

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History

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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History

Random Quotes

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. – Ouida

Category:
Sports

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that youre never discouraged. – Salma Hayek

Category:
strength

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot

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Jewelry

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. – Jane Howard

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Family