#heritage

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

I love my heritage! ↗

— Alicia Keys

#i #i love #love

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#hard #hard work #heritage #think #toughness

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#english #here #heritage #i #proud

I've known where my heritage is from all along. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#heritage #i #known #where

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#around #begin #changes #different #every

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#been #heritage #invincible #jewish #lies

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#heritage #hungarian #music #now #playing

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#american #articles #compact #contributions #discs