#history

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#convince #country #discomfort #especially #get

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#after #american #army #classes #dance

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#cause #chapter #country #development #devoted

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. ↗

— R. Kelly

#day #history #i #like #making

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#burn #destroy #else #ever #flag

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#die #history #i #knowing #looks

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ↗

— Ellen Key

#century #emancipation #greatest #history #intense

Ideas shape the course of history. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#course #history #ideas #shape

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#history #mind #necessary #opinion #preliminary