Quote by Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are t

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – 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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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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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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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we dont acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. – James Earl Jones

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Family

I need to work to support my family. – Tori Spelling

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Family

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Family

My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up. – Emeril Lagasse

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Family

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It wouldnt be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. – Michael Kinsley

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As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. – Juliana Hatfield

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