"History doesn't always move in a straight..." - Quote by Barack Obama
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.”
“The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!”
“I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.”
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“If we fix on the old, we get stuck.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”