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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#fascinated #i #kid #little #little kid

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#because #direction #fortunate #gave #help

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#assigns #beware #block #color #every

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#comes #first #hate #love #nationalism

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#cheese #different #different kinds #forty-six #govern

No nation has friends only interests. ↗