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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln
History
Past
New
Rise
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
Abraham Lincoln
Work
God
History
Nation
"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."
Abraham Lincoln
History
Light
Generation
Honor
"You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women of the church who began to give Sarah Breedlove an image of herself as something other than an illiterate washerwoman, and she wanted to make her life better, and her daughter's life better."
A'Lelia Bundles
Life
History
Women
You
"Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'"
A'Lelia Bundles
Life
History
Culture
Bad
"Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books."
A'Lelia Bundles
History
Me
People
Never
"For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial."
A'Lelia Bundles
History
Woman
Who
Something
"Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship."
A'Lelia Bundles
History
Women
Black
Anything
"I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons."
A'Lelia Bundles
History
People
About
Story
"We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our greatest inspiration comes from our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, teachers, and friends."
A'Lelia Bundles
History
Women
Books
Friends
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