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When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’ – Adolf Hitler	added by Normando 5 months ago
When I was in Kenya, the guy who took my bag (at the airport) was Black. The guy who flew the plane was Black. The president was Black, as a Black person from an African country, you haven’t seen the long history of oppression, the long history of social injustice that those of us who were born here, who are descendants of enslaved people, have seen. – Karsonya Wise Whitehead	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The descendants of the people who walk through that door were strong people, proud people, people have of deep faith. People who love their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them through all of these periods, went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world. And all of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is a $25,000 direct benefit to build wealth through home equity, black Residents that lived in Evanston during the period of harm, which was 1919 - 1969, or their direct descendants are eligible. – Rue Simmons	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires. – Janice Hahn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The collective amount required to close the disparity for approximately 40 million black American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States will come to at least $14 trillion, this is a sum that cannot be met reasonably by private donors or other levels of government. – Scott Applewhite	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You know what would be the most embarrassing situation? If it didn't pass. I'm honestly concerned that it could be, in our state, a situation where it doesn't actually pass, having that in your constitution, the constitution of the state — where you have descendants of slaves that live here and pay taxes here and raise children here — is totally unacceptable. – Antonio Parkinson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It may be inflicted in one way for one set of descendants. – Yohuru Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My grandfather was born in Kyivand left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family, we don’t carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival. – George Santos	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
After the body is placed in the tomb, there are constant events and activities, that is to say, their descendants keep coming back over many years and placing food and offerings there, including molluscs. – Van Dalen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We never shied away from that history, or I never did, and I wanted to confront it, and then the question was,' What to do about it ?' And that went to the recommendations to identify initiatives to reconcile and restore justice with the descendants who feel the historical trauma and pain of what their ancestors suffered. – David Faigman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Now, our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes their lives, to give us, their descendants, an America that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you : Are you willing to do the same ? – Mo Brooks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The most urgent thing in my view is that we have to help provide closure by helping record their stories to the next generation and their family members in North Korea so that one day, we can deliver their messages or letters to them or even their descendants in North Korea. – Paul Kyumin Lee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You've got this fundamental theory that the United States has notchanged at all in 250-plus years, that we are still white supremacists because we are descendants of our forefathers, and then you have violence ... as the means of change, ...It's very clearly indoctrination, and because of that, they're completely subverting the parental role. – Lia Rensin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's poetic justice, the descendants of the people who were pushed out of South Carolina, who had no power, who knew they could go missing if they tried to vote, have returned and they're making South Carolina work for them. South Carolina's been a long time coming. – Nsenga Burton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's worth underscoring how absurd it is that the descendants of the tribe that met Pilgrims, who every American learns about around this time of year, couldn't meet the definition of a' tribe,' it's just a perfect illustration of how messed up, and really, anti-Native, federal Indian policy has been throughout our history. – Robert Maxim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To get a better idea of what the climate was like in this warmest phase of the Cretaceous, we first assessed the climatic conditions under which the plants' modern descendants live. – Johann Klages	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
Donald Trump is in no position to give anyone advice on combating racism, but were glad to have another chance to talk about Frederick Douglass and his legacy, pete was proud to name his comprehensive plan to dismantle systemic racism after one of Americas most recognized leaders, Mr. Douglass, with input and support from his descendants. – Nina Smith	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism since the very founding of this country, august 20th of 1619 - the first time that a kidnapped African was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and the success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in. – Beto ORourkes	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Best-case scenario is that the little library is fully intact, sitting on a nice sandy hillside on the moon for a billion years. In the distant future it might be recovered by our descendants or by a future form of intelligent life that might evolve long after we're gone, from the DNA and the cells that we included, Nova Spivack could clone us and regenerate the human race and other plants and animals. – Nova Spivack	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. – Thomas Paine	added by Normando 4 years ago
It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. – Judy Garland	added by regnumveritatis 4 years ago
[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people. – George Washington	added by Normando 4 years ago

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

– Adolf Hitler

added by Normando
5 months ago

When I was in Kenya, the guy who took my bag (at the airport) was Black. The guy who flew the plane was Black. The president was Black, as a Black person from an African country, you haven’t seen the long history of oppression, the long history of social injustice that those of us who were born here, who are descendants of enslaved people, have seen.

– Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The descendants of the people who walk through that door were strong people, proud people, people have of deep faith. People who love their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them through all of these periods, went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world. And all of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a $25,000 direct benefit to build wealth through home equity, black Residents that lived in Evanston during the period of harm, which was 1919 - 1969, or their direct descendants are eligible.

– Rue Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires.

– Janice Hahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The collective amount required to close the disparity for approximately 40 million black American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States will come to at least $14 trillion, this is a sum that cannot be met reasonably by private donors or other levels of government.

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You know what would be the most embarrassing situation? If it didn't pass. I'm honestly concerned that it could be, in our state, a situation where it doesn't actually pass, having that in your constitution, the constitution of the state — where you have descendants of slaves that live here and pay taxes here and raise children here — is totally unacceptable.

– Antonio Parkinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It may be inflicted in one way for one set of descendants.

– Yohuru Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My grandfather was born in Kyivand left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family, we don’t carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.

– George Santos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After the body is placed in the tomb, there are constant events and activities, that is to say, their descendants keep coming back over many years and placing food and offerings there, including molluscs.

– Van Dalen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We never shied away from that history, or I never did, and I wanted to confront it, and then the question was,' What to do about it ?' And that went to the recommendations to identify initiatives to reconcile and restore justice with the descendants who feel the historical trauma and pain of what their ancestors suffered.

– David Faigman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now, our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes their lives, to give us, their descendants, an America that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you : Are you willing to do the same ?

– Mo Brooks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most urgent thing in my view is that we have to help provide closure by helping record their stories to the next generation and their family members in North Korea so that one day, we can deliver their messages or letters to them or even their descendants in North Korea.

– Paul Kyumin Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You've got this fundamental theory that the United States has notchanged at all in 250-plus years, that we are still white supremacists because we are descendants of our forefathers, and then you have violence ... as the means of change, ...It's very clearly indoctrination, and because of that, they're completely subverting the parental role.

– Lia Rensin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's poetic justice, the descendants of the people who were pushed out of South Carolina, who had no power, who knew they could go missing if they tried to vote, have returned and they're making South Carolina work for them. South Carolina's been a long time coming.

– Nsenga Burton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's worth underscoring how absurd it is that the descendants of the tribe that met Pilgrims, who every American learns about around this time of year, couldn't meet the definition of a' tribe,' it's just a perfect illustration of how messed up, and really, anti-Native, federal Indian policy has been throughout our history.

– Robert Maxim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To get a better idea of what the climate was like in this warmest phase of the Cretaceous, we first assessed the climatic conditions under which the plants' modern descendants live.

– Johann Klages

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

Donald Trump is in no position to give anyone advice on combating racism, but were glad to have another chance to talk about Frederick Douglass and his legacy, pete was proud to name his comprehensive plan to dismantle systemic racism after one of Americas most recognized leaders, Mr. Douglass, with input and support from his descendants.

– Nina Smith

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism since the very founding of this country, august 20th of 1619 - the first time that a kidnapped African was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and the success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in.

– Beto ORourkes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Best-case scenario is that the little library is fully intact, sitting on a nice sandy hillside on the moon for a billion years. In the distant future it might be recovered by our descendants or by a future form of intelligent life that might evolve long after we're gone, from the DNA and the cells that we included, Nova Spivack could clone us and regenerate the human race and other plants and animals.

– Nova Spivack

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

– Thomas Paine

added by Normando
4 years ago

It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

– Judy Garland

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

– George Washington

added by Normando
4 years ago

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