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If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosin...more

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Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of...more

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There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

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History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of...more

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Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

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I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what t...more

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In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of women in society was ingeniousl...more

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My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not comm...more

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Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

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The government is an artificial creation, established by the people to defend everyone's equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A...more

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We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit ...more

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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way ...more

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The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from th...more

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Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often...more

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You can't be neutral on a moving train.