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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated. Ta-Nehisi Coates

War Saying Generation People Gave Liberated Those Folks Somehow Also Least Understood Were Very Contradiction America Revolutionary American Revolutionary War African African Americans Land Many Fought Slavery

My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Tammy Duckworth

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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. Tariq Ramadan

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart. Terry Eagleton

Struggle Heart Culture Political Feminism Nationalism Late Topped Global Revolutionary Currents Place Century Agenda Ethnic

I flew to England to see the rough cut of 'Revolutionary Road.' I was quite moved. As a married man, it's kind of disturbing to see a couple try so hard to work things out and fail so miserably. Thomas Newman

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below. Tom Morello

Change Radical Progressive Come Always Revolutionary Even Below

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East. Tom Reiss

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It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices. Tony Hoare

Future Challenges Will Power Predict Research Our Way Easy Some Directed Only Computing Towards Devices Most Discoveries Times Revolutionary Unexpected Grand Exploit Basis

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time. Ving Rhames

Music Time Jazz Find Most Revolutionary Early

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. Vinoba Bhave

Yourself Power Thinking Allow Governmental Power Revolutionary Imagine

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. Walter Lippmann

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'America's Dad' is what we called Bill Cosby. And we called him that because, well, what a revolutionary way to put it. Through him, we were thumbing our noses at the long, dreary history for black men in America by elevating this one to a paternal Olympus. In the 1980s, he made the black American family seem 'just like us.' Wesley Morris

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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition. Zack de la Rocha

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they were too radical to be accepted in the academy. Rousseau's books were banned. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill couldn't hold academic positions because they were atheists. Martha Nussbaum

Great People Political Radical Positions Too Books Philosophy Those Immersed Atheists John Stuart Academic Look Most Academics Academy Because Accepted Tradition Were Western Revolutionary Often Movements Banned Hold Jeremy Mill Career

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries. Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism Creative Destruction Will Slower Emerge New Accelerate Industries Around Revolutionary Breakthrough Products Businesses Whole Technologies

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. Bill Gates

Internet Digital Medium Everybody Channels Approach Broadcast Has-Been TV Finite Finite Number Picking Been Historically Very Revolutionary Quite Move Number

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe. Alice Roberts

Love Great Change Age People Made Our Ancestors I Love Bronze Genes Particularly Spread Were Times Revolutionary Being Migration Prehistory Across Languages Farmers Europe

You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world? John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. Henry Rollins

We as a people need to declare that we stand with rule of law and not with the false tales of the revolutionary Marxist forces, who most recently have rebranded themselves from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter. David A. Clarke, Jr.

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