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“It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.”

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Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have…

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I want to be remembered by: Can't we all just get along? You know? And like I say, I know I shouldn't have been…

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Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

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Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

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You know, my mom, she's a little older than me. Her history in watching, you know, police violence and violence, period, over the years…

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I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for…

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I tell myself time heals. It really does.

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When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace…

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As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me.…

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You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope…

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We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in…

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When I came here almost nine years ago our economy was troubled and our nation was divided.

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Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as…

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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

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“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion…

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John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

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No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…

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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

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We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,…

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

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“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work, and in part to the opening up of industrial employment in the North during the wartime boom, roughly a million blacks (along with even more whites) moved from the South during the 1940s. Another 1.5 million…

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“dark say: berthenia belle never forget the tongue hid name”

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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

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Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument…

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