"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."

History, Women, Appreciation, Country

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"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."

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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."

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"The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender."

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"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."

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"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."

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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."

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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."

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"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."

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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."

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