Christopher Columbus Quotes

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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was… — Matt Bahr
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. — Immortal Technique
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand. — Sister Souljah
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at… — Winston Churchill
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of… — Christopher Columbus
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around… — Peter Lewis Allen
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films… — Chubby Checker
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyce
I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus… — John Waters
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain? — Pablo Neruda
The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a… — Malik Zulu Shabazz
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of… — Paul Theroux
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also… — Seth Shostak
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only… — Len G. Murray

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