#the history of

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

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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

#history #interesting #itself #men #more

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great man #great men #history #lives

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#considerable #country #day #debate #early

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#back #come #great #history #long

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. ↗

— Angela Davis

#california #campuses #communities #consciousness #country

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #different #elements #film #get

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#claim #exercised #governments #his #history

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. ↗

— Norman Granz

#big #dancing #first #history #jazz

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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