"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."

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"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."

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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

History, Responsibility, Colonialism, Obligation

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

History, Reflection, Understanding, Mystery

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

History, People, Events, Lies

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

History, Ideology, Influence, Politics

"Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror."

Horace, Roman Poet

History, Power, Culture, Influence

"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

Bernhard von Bulow, German Statesman

History, Life, Development, Fight

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

Pierre Schaeffer, French Composer

History, Civilization, Hope, Will

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."

Pierre Bayle, French Philosopher

History, Nothing, Race

"The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!"

Christina Engela, South African Author

History, Design, Innovation, Creativity

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

War,

"Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems."

Time, Problems

"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."

Decision-Making, Decisions, Economy

"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."

Politics, Investigation

"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."

Decision-Making, Decision, Consequences

"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."

Being,

"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."

People,

"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."

Education, Accomplishment, Act

"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."

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"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."

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