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Ancestor Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
- But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's…
- If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion,…
- You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a…
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- For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history… — Cory Booker
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — Elayne Boosler
- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
- Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. — Buzz Aldrin
- Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain
- My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush
- We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel