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Firsts Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
- If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
- My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
- My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he…
- What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he…
- Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of…
- First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that…
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
- Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices…
- Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go…
- You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong