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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. — Paul Ryan

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history. — Jim Harrison

As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed. — Floyd C. Forsberg

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history. — Anthony Gregory

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history. — Bernie Sanders

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. — Jerome Ringo

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. — Conor Oberst

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. — Junot Diaz

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead

Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. — Patricia Highsmith

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley

This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history. — Teju Cole

The Day of Trouble is Near — P.J. Parker

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history. — Rodney King

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. — Dave Grohl

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke

I hate American History after 1850. — Emma Iadanza

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet? — P.J. Parker

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. — George Bernard Shaw

This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power. — P.J. Parker

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. — Herbert Croly

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner

'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

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love. — John Edgar Wideman

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. — Arthur Ashe

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame. — Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. — Dinesh D'Souza

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. — Marcus Garvey

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. — George Burns

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H.L. Mencken

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. — Howard Mumford Jones

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. — A.E. Samaan

American history is parking lots. — William Least Heat-Moon

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. — Luke Ford

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. — John F. Kennedy

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. — Cristina Saralegui

To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea
and history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren

Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency. — Daniel O'Brien

$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave, but he was a man nonetheless. — Jay Grewal

However, here's a warning you may want to heed about the American dream-read the fine print! — J.C. Phillips

Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy

History is the archaeology of the present and future. — Patrick Mendis

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. — Rick Perlstein

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange

Remove yourself, sir! — David McCullough

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan. — William Sadler

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. — Taylor Branch

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. — Gore Vidal

I understood ... that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope. — Ian Caldwell

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today. — Kwasi Kwarteng

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short. — James Carl Nelson

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. — Ben Bradlee

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. — Todd Garlington

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd

George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history. — Helen Thomas

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television. — Bill Buford

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. — Bernie Sanders

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy. — Ben Bernanke

< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture. — David Brion Davis

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

I'm covering the worst president in American history. — Helen Thomas

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country ... We are United as Americans. — Barack Obama

In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow

For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do. — P.J. Parker

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous. — Robert Hormats

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for. — Margaret Lazarus Dean

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. — Mike Fitzpatrick

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American. — Luc Sante

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. — Christoph Waltz

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history. — Joseph Cummins

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times