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In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Abraham Abraham Lincoln Civil Civil Rights Did Era Fifth Grade King Lincoln Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Might Minutes Rights Slavery You

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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: American Entered Era History Integration New Our Phase

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My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

~Coy Bowles

Topics: Dad Done Era Fullest He Hippie Important Life Living Living Life Lot More Music Playing Rules Seen Stability Than Where

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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'

~Craig Bruce

Topics: Annihilation Away Demand Deployment Earth Era Europe Feeling Life Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Our People Please Precious Protesting Reagan Shown Soviet Soviet Union Stupid Take Those Today Union Weapons Western Western Europe Wonder I Wonder

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I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

~Craig Ferguson

Topics: Actually Age Background Been Chaos Clearly Come Coming Coming Of Age Difficult Era Helps Influence Know Out Punk Punk Rock Rock Sure Think Violent I Think

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As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Age Biological Close Dawn Design Drawing Era Industrial Think Witnessing I Think

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That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

~Curtis Lemay

Topics: Destroyed Doing Elbows Era Even Might Our Russia Skinned

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We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

~Cyril Ramaphosa

Topics: Behind Confidence Country Diminishing Era Institutions Leaders Our Public Put Should Trust Us Weakened

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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

~D'Angelo

Topics: Aware Coming Conscious Cool Cool Thing Culture Enemy Era Grew Hats Know Lyrics Malcolm Malcolm X Music People Popular Popular Culture Public Thing Trendy Up Very Wearing Were Who T-Shirts

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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Topics: Abolition Anniversary Cities Civil Civil Society Effective End Era Global Hiroshima Leaders Mark Nagasaki National Nuclear Participation Representatives Society Some Summit Those Time Urged

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