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I’m so grateful to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE’s) Commissioner Rick Swearingen, along with the tremendous men and women of the FDLE, for listening to my initial request to investigate this injustice from seven decades ago, i also thank God every day to live in the United States, where not only do we recognize and correct the trespasses of prior generations, but also where we seek to establish a more perfect union, just as our forefathers did. – Pam Bondi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My forefathers and mothers died for us to have the opportunity to vote, I cannot participate in voter intimidation and voter criminalization, we were told in 2020 some of the safest elections occurred across this country, so I will not participate in destroying things that I believe are ok. – Barbara Gervin-Hawkins	Found on FOX News 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
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government. – Justice Robert H. Jackson	added by Normando 3 years ago
We return to the land of our forefathers not by the right of might but by the might, so that all our citizens, residents may live in peace, May citizens – Menachem Begin	added by anonymous 4 years ago
This job is not easy, for he's battling the left and their absurd words of destruction, our nation has been built on the solid ground from our forefathers, and there is a moral code of duty that has been passed on from President Lincoln. – The Hill reported.Jon Voight	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Independence Day in America was July 4, 1776. Blood, sweat. and tears. Negros remember the oppression of their forefathers. And the condemnation of slavery. The memories are bittersweet to this day. When you look back at history. The abuse, affliction, and demeanor of our fore parents' rights, invaded. The pain is still sharp. And fresh in our memories like yesterday. And it lives on in our heart, like Cancer without a cure. – Jamela Dunbar	added by Eside 5 years ago
We will be happy if those stolen artefacts are brought back to Benin. But they stole them. Those items are the works of our forefathers and they are very unique to us. – Eric Ogbemudia	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If necessary, the people will sacrifice their lives to save their forefathers home and land. – Liakot Ali	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
His brutal, bullying bigotry runs contrary to the very principles our forefathers fought so hard to defend. – David Jolly	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The need for beaches and the sea is very much a stereotype of recent years, which we already accept as our own opinion, our forefathers, even the wealthy, did not go en masse to foreign seas. – Oleg Safonov	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This city will not have a race war, they say. But we must realize that we were victims of war as soon as the soles of our forefathers' feet set foot on the United States of America, we are casualties of war. – Islam Minister DeAndre Muhammad	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd. – Burton	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere) – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I’m so grateful to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE’s) Commissioner Rick Swearingen, along with the tremendous men and women of the FDLE, for listening to my initial request to investigate this injustice from seven decades ago, i also thank God every day to live in the United States, where not only do we recognize and correct the trespasses of prior generations, but also where we seek to establish a more perfect union, just as our forefathers did.

– Pam Bondi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My forefathers and mothers died for us to have the opportunity to vote, I cannot participate in voter intimidation and voter criminalization, we were told in 2020 some of the safest elections occurred across this country, so I will not participate in destroying things that I believe are ok.

– Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

Found on FOX News
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

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

– Justice Robert H. Jackson

added by Normando
3 years ago

We return to the land of our forefathers not by the right of might but by the might, so that all our citizens, residents may live in peace, May citizens

– Menachem Begin

added by anonymous
4 years ago

This job is not easy, for he's battling the left and their absurd words of destruction, our nation has been built on the solid ground from our forefathers, and there is a moral code of duty that has been passed on from President Lincoln.

– The Hill reported.Jon Voight

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Independence Day in America was July 4, 1776. Blood, sweat. and tears. Negros remember the oppression of their forefathers. And the condemnation of slavery. The memories are bittersweet to this day. When you look back at history. The abuse, affliction, and demeanor of our fore parents' rights, invaded. The pain is still sharp. And fresh in our memories like yesterday. And it lives on in our heart, like Cancer without a cure.

– Jamela Dunbar

added by Eside
5 years ago

We will be happy if those stolen artefacts are brought back to Benin. But they stole them. Those items are the works of our forefathers and they are very unique to us.

– Eric Ogbemudia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If necessary, the people will sacrifice their lives to save their forefathers home and land.

– Liakot Ali

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

His brutal, bullying bigotry runs contrary to the very principles our forefathers fought so hard to defend.

– David Jolly

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The need for beaches and the sea is very much a stereotype of recent years, which we already accept as our own opinion, our forefathers, even the wealthy, did not go en masse to foreign seas.

– Oleg Safonov

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This city will not have a race war, they say. But we must realize that we were victims of war as soon as the soles of our forefathers' feet set foot on the United States of America, we are casualties of war.

– Islam Minister DeAndre Muhammad

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.

– Burton

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

– Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere)

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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