Heritage Quotes - Page 4

• As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Agency, Individual

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• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, People, Achievement

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

  Alan Autry

  Technology, Our World, Agriculture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

  Spencer Bachus

  Years, Lasts, Tradition

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• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

  Jim Cooper

  Thinking, Foundation, Tanks

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• An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Egypt, Strange, Honest

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• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, Musical, Blind

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• My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

  Nicholas Lea

  Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

  Rick Yune

  Korea, Interesting, North And South

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Principles, Generations, Done

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• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

  Barbara Jordan

  Voice, Ties, People

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Night, Style, Stories

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• I am the dream and the hope of the slave

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, History, African American

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

  Eva Longoria

  Mother, Advice, Pieces

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• It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

  Howard Schultz

  Who I Am, People, Ironic

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• I never respond to Donald Trump's personal insults about me. I could care less what he says about me. I'm going to respond when he calls a judge unqualified because of his Mexican heritage, or mocks a reporter with a disability, or says demeaning things about women. And the list goes on.

  Hillary Clinton

  Judging, Mexican, Goes On

  Source: www.9news.com

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• When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Book, Writing, School

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Unqualified, Want

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Library, Furniture

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2016

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• The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

  Winston Churchill

  Pride, America, Important

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• Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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