"If America has a civic religion, the First……" — Henry Louis Gates
"If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith."
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113 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just…
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
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Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any…
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale…
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There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election…
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular…
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to…
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An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
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The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes,…
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched…
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