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He Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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…
- If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
- My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
- Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
- 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…
- People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he…
- 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…
- 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 chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle