“Though Fidel came to boast of his Marxism-Leninism, he himself never joined the Communist Party. As the revolution careened along, the Communists… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Cuba’s history as an independent republic had been a drama of acute and chronic political frustration. One crowd after another had come… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“In 1856 the Know-Nothings even ran a former president, Millard Fillmore, as their presidential candidate. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Yet the old faith in the power of Bryce's "amazing solvent" to fulfill Washington's conception of Americans as "one people" held fast. However much… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise in dissimulation?… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“In New York the curriculum guide for 11th-grade American history tells students that there were three "foundations" for the Constitution: the European Enlightenment, the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Though Fidel came to boast of his Marxism-Leninism, he himself never joined the Communist Party. As the revolution careened along, the Communists may even… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order to hold… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“In 1974, after testimony from ethnic spokesmen denouncing the melting pot as a conspiracy to homogenize America, Congress passed the Ethnic Heritage Studies Program… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism" arises as a reaction against Anglo- or Eurocentrism; but at what point does it mutate into an ethnocentrism of its own?” — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“In the Skokie case, it upheld the right of neo-Nazis to parade down the streets of an Illinois town inhabited by Holocaust survivors and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
![“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all nations melted into a new race. Its underlying philosophy is that America is not a nation of individuals at all but a nation of groups, that ethnicity is…” quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd0/arthur-m-schlesinger-jr-2-2017_american-history_p-ressed-too-far-the-cult-of-ethnicity-h_881791.jpg)
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