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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Black history is American history.


Morgan Freeman
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Tommy Lee Jones
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
William Bratton
'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.
Cory Booker
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.


Aleister Crowley
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Herbert Croly
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
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By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.


Christoph Waltz
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Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
Gerald Edelman
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin
I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
Samuel Witwer
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
Robert Reich
The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
Edward Snowden
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And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Sachin Tendulkar
As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.
Alan Greenspan
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May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
William Kunstler
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There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.


Michelle Obama
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