#american history

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

— Rodney King

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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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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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

— Peabo Bryson

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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

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I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. ↗

— Phil Collins

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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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

— Dave Foley

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