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src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633388334i/21883479._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium. Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Claudia Clark, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_58480569> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/91820115">Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/european-history">european-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/international">international</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literary">literary</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/politics">politics</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/speeches">speeches</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11379275-at-one-point-approximately-halfway-through-her-remarks-merkel-stated">278 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div data-react-class="ReactComponents.NativeAd" data-react-props="{"adId":"","className":"googleNativeAd--quotesPage","isMobile":false,"isNewsfeed":false,"signedIn":false,"allowBehavioralTargeting":null,"trackingOptions":{"enableTracking":true,"adId":""}}"></div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/21883479.Claudia_Clark"> <img alt="Claudia Clark" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633388334i/21883479._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Claudia Clark, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_58480569> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/91820115">Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/european-history">european-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/international">international</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literary">literary</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/politics">politics</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/relationships">relationships</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/speeches">speeches</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11379279-in-her-usual-manner-merkel-spoke-in-german-it-is">169 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “During the Depression of the 1930s everyone suffered, even the rich. It was hard times for all and people helped each other if they could. Americans coming through that together meant something. Now they were being asked to struggle again. But because so many servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, Americans had a cause that they all shared – fight the Fascists and keep the threat and the war from coming home. Yet, now the grim reality, the depths of the sacrifices, and the grief of their losses was devastating.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> A.G. Russo, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_199121904> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/202865052">The Cases Nobody Wanted</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-investigations">historical-investigations</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-mysteries">historical-mysteries</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history-novel">history-novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/war">war</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/war-time-history">war-time-history</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11972735-during-the-depression-of-the-1930s-everyone-suffered-even-the">109 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “What the American people didn’t know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about America’s secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> A.G. Russo, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_199121904> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/202865052">The Cases Nobody Wanted</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-investigations">historical-investigations</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-mysteries">historical-mysteries</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history-novel">history-novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/war">war</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/war-time-history">war-time-history</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11972739-what-the-american-people-didn-t-know-was-how-aggressive-the">104 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/10029.Colson_Whitehead"> <img alt="Colson Whitehead" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561996933i/10029._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Colson Whitehead, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_30555488> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/48287641">The Underground Railroad</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/native-american-genocide">native-american-genocide</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/racism">racism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/slavery">slavery</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/7831705-stolen-bodies-working-stolen-land-it-was-an-engine-that">101 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “The filigreed iron gates of the Navy Yard were open wide between two pillars that featured large spread-winged eagles on orbs. Men were standing around as women came out together in their overalls after their shifts. Before the war women didn’t work at the Navy Yard, but with men joining up or drafted and a new campaign with a poster of 'Rosie the Riveter' it did its job encouraging woman to work outside the home for the war effort.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> A.G. Russo, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_199121904> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/202865052">The Cases Nobody Wanted</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fictional-narratives">fictional-narratives</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/war">war</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11972736-the-filigreed-iron-gates-of-the-navy-yard-were-open">97 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Educate not Legislate<br />Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Beltway”). That move provided funds to instigate incentive programs for high school teachers – to attract the best and brightest. The result was a generation of bright, energetic 18-year-olds graduating high-school, equipped to tackle the future.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/educational">educational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fictional-narratives">fictional-narratives</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/service">service</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046990-educate-not-legislate-refusing-to-pass-unnecessary-laws-requires-a">96 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/63859.James_Madison"> <img alt="James Madison" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213974226i/63859._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> James Madison </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/james-madison">james-madison</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/the-federalist">the-federalist</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/7196640-if-men-were-angels-no-government-would-be-necessary-if">88 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2887.James_Ellroy"> <img alt="James Ellroy" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628819335i/2887._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> James Ellroy </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/167575-america-was-never-innocent-we-popped-our-cherry-on-the">84 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “An Affair With The Media<br />Being President presupposes a relationship with the media. One does have control over the intimacy of that connection. <br />My media association might be best represented by the following interview, recently undertaken for this book: <br />“What do you think of Newstime’s review of your book, Madam President?” <br />“Newstime’s review? Surely you mean Bill Bologna who works for Newstime?” <br />“Well, yes.” <br />“Now, Bill Bologna. What has he published?” <br />“He’s a critic. He does reviews.” <br /> “Oh, he gets paid for reading what other people have published and then writing what he thinks of their writing?” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/diplomacy">diplomacy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fun">fun</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humour">humour</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/influence">influence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literary-fiction">literary-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/policy">policy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/political-goals">political-goals</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/satire">satire</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046984-an-affair-with-the-media-being-president-presupposes-a-relationship">77 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Killing War<br /><br />I had no desire to alter the viable occupations of humanity, but I was determined to do something about the level of regional bloodshed. <br />Education was my weapon of choice, based on a simple hypothesis: that the advance troops of physical carnage are the propaganda and lies that justify murder, making the real battleground that of ideas. <br />I was determined to address a situation where so many people were ready to kill, driven by the conviction that others are either evil incarnate or will murder them first if they don’t kill them first if they don’t … <br />Entire nations were buried in twisted truths submerged by hate, covered with vengeance. Voices of remorse, forgiveness, justice and reconciliation were drowned out by the din of screams for death or revenge. <br />The best defense system against the cycle of violence was something that is impervious to any tool of destruction ever spawned. That something is knowledge.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/alternative-history">alternative-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/service">service</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046981-killing-war-i-had-no-desire-to-alter-the-viable">75 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The requirement for anyone running for elected office to have held a position of public service, such as fireman, school teacher, librarian, scout leader, or policeman was never actually passed into law. <br />Still the range of day jobs that some of our Congress people now hold are pretty amazing. <br />Somehow these days a background as a lawyer is a big minus.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humour">humour</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/satire">satire</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/service">service</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/witty">witty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046987-the-requirement-for-anyone-running-for-elected-office-to-have">75 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Why was I the Most Popular President Who Ever Lived?<br />I castrated the IRS, implemented the National Sales Tax (Fair Tax) and brought an end to parasitic government - all through the use of numbers, statistics. business metrics, graphs, pie charts, efficiency - in short - results.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humour">humour</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/satire">satire</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/satirical">satirical</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/witty">witty</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046964-why-was-i-the-most-popular-president-who-ever-lived">69 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6015512.Nancy_Omeara"> <img alt="Nancy Omeara" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place.<br /><br />Maybe we can learn from history before it happens.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nancy Omeara, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_43308768> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/67209774">The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/alternative-history">alternative-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fun">fun</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/political">political</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/political-fiction">political-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/satire">satire</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/service">service</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-in-politics">women-in-politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12046959-written-twenty-years-after-she-held-office-this-abridged-biography">64 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/4174.Sherman_Alexie"> <img alt="Sherman Alexie" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1333515890i/4174._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Sherman Alexie, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_693208> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/829330">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/317912-we-indians-really-should-be-better-liars-considering-how-often">51 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6435752.Todd_Garlington"> <img alt="Todd Garlington" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1571861559i/6435752._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Todd Garlington </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/freedom">freedom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/happiness">happiness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/idealism">idealism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/money">money</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/selling-out">selling-out</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/618312-once-people-said-give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death">50 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6281688.David_McCullough"> <img alt="David McCullough" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429921568i/6281688._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> David McCullough, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_2203> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/963375">John Adams</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/government">government</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/john-adams">john-adams</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/liberty">liberty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mccullough">mccullough</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/politics-freedom-liberty">politics-freedom-liberty</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/418757-the-source-of-our-suffering-has-been-our-timidity-we">36 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/7.Bill_Bryson"> <img alt="Bill Bryson" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1578597522i/7._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains and then the people of the West started blasting away at them. Buffalo are just cows with big heads. If you've ever looked a cow in the face and seen the unutterable depths of trust and stupidity that lie within, you will be able to guess how difficult it must have been for people in the West to track down buffalo and shoot them to pieces. By 1895, there were only 800 buffalo left, mostly in zoos and touring Wild West shows. With no buffalo left to kill, Westerners started shooting Indians. Between 1850 and 1890 they reduced the number of Indians in America from two million to 90,000.<br /><br />Nowadays, thank goodness, both have made a recovery. Today there are 30,000 buffalo and 300,000 Indiands, and of course you are not allowed to shoot either, so all the Westerners have left to shoot at are road signs and each other, both of which they do rather a lot. There you have a capsule history of the West.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Bill Bryson </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/buffalo">buffalo</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/indians">indians</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/the-west">the-west</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wild-west">wild-west</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/151620-people-in-the-west-like-to-shoot-things-when-they">29 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1483.Joseph_J_Ellis"> <img alt="Joseph J. Ellis" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1240111454i/1483._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Joseph J. Ellis, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_7493> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/1290896">Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-revolution">american-revolution</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jefferson">jefferson</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/lincoln">lincoln</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/nationalism">nationalism</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/429911-lincoln-once-said-that-america-was-founded-on-a-proposition">28 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/45591426.Leslie_K_Simmons"> <img alt="Leslie K. Simmons" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709182874i/45591426._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “It is true we enjoy self-government, but we live in fear. We find ourselves in the paw of a lion. Convenience may induce him to crush us, and with a faint struggle, we may cease to be.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Leslie K. Simmons, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_200257206> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/204935849">Red Clay, Running Waters</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/biographical">biographical</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/biographical-fiction">biographical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/documentary">documentary</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fictional-drama">fictional-drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical">historical</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literary-fiction">literary-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/real-life">real-life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/research">research</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12033681-it-is-true-we-enjoy-self-government-but-we-live-in">25 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/45591426.Leslie_K_Simmons"> <img alt="Leslie K. Simmons" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709182874i/45591426._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “He was her fire, had always been from the start, his burning, radiant spirit, a beacon worthy of following.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Leslie K. Simmons, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_200257206> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/204935849">Red Clay, Running Waters</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/discovery">discovery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/educational">educational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/historical-fiction">historical-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history-novel">history-novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12033701-he-was-her-fire-had-always-been-from-the-start">24 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/10427.James_Baldwin"> <img alt="James Baldwin" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1343346341i/10427._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. No road whatever will lead Americans back to the simplicity of this European village where white men still have the luxury of looking on me as a stranger. I am not, really, a stranger any longer for any American alive. One of the things that distinguishes Americans from other people is that no other people has ever been so deeply involved in the lives of black men, and vice versa. This fact faced, with all its implications, it can be seen that the history of the American Negro problem is not merely shameful, it is also something of an achievement. For even when the worst has been said, it must also be added that the perpetual challenge posed by this problem was always, somehow, perpetually met. It is precisely this black-white experience which may prove of indispensable value to us in the world we face today. This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> James Baldwin, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_410810> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/125495">Notes of a Native Son</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/african-americans">african-americans</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blackness">blackness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/race">race</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/race-relations">race-relations</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/stranger-in-the-village">stranger-in-the-village</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/whiteness">whiteness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/whites">whites</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/7219079-the-time-has-come-to-realize-that-the-interracial-drama">21 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1214964.Ta_Nehisi_Coates"> <img alt="Ta-Nehisi Coates" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1595285597i/1214964._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Ta-Nehisi Coates, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_25489625> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/44848425">Between the World and Me</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/foreign-policy">foreign-policy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/patriotism">patriotism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/racism">racism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/social-activism">social-activism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/social-justice">social-justice</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/7464935-perhaps-there-has-been-at-some-point-in-history-some">20 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/15855059.Clint_Smith"> <img alt="Clint Smith" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612326976i/15855059._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in <i>Notes on the State of Virginia</i>,” he said to the five of us, standing in front of the east wing of Jefferson’s manor, “that has some of the most racist things you might ever read, written by anyone, anywhere, anytime, in it. So sometimes I stop and ask myself, 'If Gettysburg had gone the wrong way, would people be quoting the Declaration of Independence or Notes on the State of Virginia?' It’s the same guy writing.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Clint Smith, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_55643287> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/86766325">How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/african-americans">african-americans</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blacks">blacks</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/monticello">monticello</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/presidents">presidents</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/racism">racism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/thomas-jefferson">thomas-jefferson</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/tours">tours</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/10874300-just-as-he-did-during-the-slavery-at-monticello-tour">13 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/179049.Grover_Cleveland"> <img alt="Grover Cleveland" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208890004i/179049._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Grover Cleveland </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/presidents">presidents</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/voting">voting</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women">women</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-s-sufferage">women-s-sufferage</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/81813-sensible-and-responsible-women-do-not-want-to-vote-the">12 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <div class="quoteText"> “We tell stories of the dead as a way of making a sense of the living. More than just simple urban legends and campfire tales, ghost stories reveal the contours of our anxieties, the nature of our collective fears and desires, the things we can’t talk about in any other way. The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Colin Dickey, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_28815491> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/49031573">Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/folk-tales">folk-tales</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ghost-stories">ghost-stories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ghosts">ghosts</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/9520239-we-tell-stories-of-the-dead-as-a-way-of">12 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/4174.Sherman_Alexie"> <img alt="Sherman Alexie" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1333515890i/4174._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, <br />look at all the history, that house<br />on the hill there is over two hundred years old, '<br />as she points out the window past me<br /><br />into what she has been taught. I have learned<br />little more about American history during my few days<br />back East than what I expected and far less<br />of what we should all know of the tribal stories<br /><br />whose architecture is 15,000 years older<br />than the corners of the house that sits<br />museumed on the hill. 'Walden Pond, '<br />the woman on the train asks, 'Did you see Walden Pond? '<br /><br />and I don't have a cruel enough heart to break<br />her own by telling her there are five Walden Ponds<br />on my little reservation out West<br />and at least a hundred more surrounding Spokane, <br /><br />the city I pretended to call my home. 'Listen, '<br />I could have told her. 'I don't give a shit<br />about Walden. I know the Indians were living stories<br />around that pond before Walden's grandparents were born<br /><br />and before his grandparents' grandparents were born.<br />I'm tired of hearing about Don-fucking-Henley saving it, too, <br />because that's redundant. If Don Henley's brothers and sisters<br />and mothers and father hadn't come here in the first place<br /><br />then nothing would need to be saved.'<br />But I didn't say a word to the woman about Walden<br />Pond because she smiled so much and seemed delighted<br />that I thought to bring her an orange juice<br /><br />back from the food car. I respect elders<br />of every color. All I really did was eat<br />my tasteless sandwich, drink my Diet Pepsi<br />and nod my head whenever the woman pointed out<br /><br />another little piece of her country's history<br />while I, as all Indians have done<br />since this war began, made plans<br />for what I would do and say the next time<br /><br />somebody from the enemy thought I was one of their own.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Sherman Alexie </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/anger">anger</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/indians">indians</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/native-americans">native-americans</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sherman-alexie">sherman-alexie</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/790094-the-white-woman-across-the-aisle-from-me-says-look">9 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/18943.Frederick_Douglass"> <img alt="Frederick Douglass" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1511594938i/18943._UX200_CR0,57,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Our past was slavery. We cannot recur to it with any sense of complacency or composure. The history of it is a record of stripes, a revelation of agony. It is written in characters of blood. Its breath is a sigh, its voice a groan, and we turn from it with a shudder. The duty of to-day is to meet the questions that confront us with intelligence and courage.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Frederick Douglass </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/african-american-history">african-american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/african-americans">african-americans</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/blacks">blacks</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/slavery">slavery</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11478285-our-past-was-slavery-we-cannot-recur-to-it-with">6 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/10029.Colson_Whitehead"> <img alt="Colson Whitehead" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561996933i/10029._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency of the massacres, where they killed women and babies, and strangled their futures in the crib. Stolen babies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Colson Whitehead, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_30555488> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/48287641">The Underground Railroad</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/america">america</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/american-history">american-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/killing">killing</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/slavery">slavery</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/8003816-the-land-she-tilled-and-worked-had-been-indian-land">5 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/8458.James_W_Loewen"> <img alt="James W. 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