Another Quote by Cole Younger

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers…

— Julia Child

“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics…

— Frank Zappa

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“After the removal era initiated officially in 1830 and the Seminole Wars of the 1840s, most Americans had the misperception that not Indians remained…

— Mark Edwin Miller

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were…

— Anonymous

“As for the Cherokees, they faced a set of laws passed by Georgia: their lands were taken, their government abolished, all meetings prohibited. Cherokees…

— Howard Zinn

“Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named…

— Kate Noble

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Went from Milwaukee, a small town in Milwaukee, to Kentucky. Nobody thought I'd survive there.

— Tyler Herro

The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

— H. W. Brands

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents,…

— Alice Walker