Jamestown Quotes

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Tavis Smiley

  Thinking, Issues, Community

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• Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

  Dick Armey

  Snow, Dying, Venture

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• Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

  Sam Houston

  Men, White, Rocks

  Sam Houston (1941). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the pro ball life style of being on the road alot and having a game almost every day but once I got use to it everything felt right.

  Graham Taylor

  Games, Interesting, Style

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!

  Henry Louis Gates

  Names, Florida, People

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

  Clarence Page

  Years, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Brother, Florida, Names

  "Gates Unlocked!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers.

  Graham Taylor

  Spring, Play, Training

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• No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Book, Principles, Sacred

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• One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part of the fabric of life. It wasn't one-upmanship. No one bragged about their medals, but you could see the look in the eyes, the tip of the hat. You served your country first, then you went to work and had a family.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Eye, Fabric Of Life

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• There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Stupid, Humorous

  Louis Farrakhan's speech at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• I started playing well and felt comfortable. That season a set a Jamestown record of consecutive innings pitched with out a walk. (40 2\3 innings, i think) and was named Jamestown Pitcher of the Year.

  Graham Taylor

  Thinking, Years, Records

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• Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.

  Darin Erstad

  Boys, People, League

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• That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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