"We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

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"Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he's the star of the first broadcast to another civilization? He's representing us. And them. It's that madman's dream come true."

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