Taylor Branch quotes
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“The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : "Author Taylor Branch". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.
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“There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.”
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“Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : "Author Taylor Branch". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.
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“I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.”
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“Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : Taylor Branch (2007). “Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“History is the key to citizenship.”
-- Taylor BranchSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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