"The first step toward tolerance is respect and……" — Henry Louis Gates
"The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge."
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113 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has 113 quotes on this site.
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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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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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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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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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More First Step Quotes
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
— Philip James Bailey
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
— Halle Berry
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
— Nathaniel Branden
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
— Richard Cecil
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to…
— Amy Chua
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step…
— W. Clement Stone
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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the…
— Nelson DeMille
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If…
— Antony C. Sutton
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Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
— Mickey Hart
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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