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“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Stills Book Spirit House Rooms Steps History Fire Written Generations Dying Slavery Following Grandparent Porch Great Grandparents

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible.”

World Real Force Rooms History Victory Prove Intellectual Ideals Real World Invincible Opposing

Author:Stefan Zweig

“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”

“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”

Inspirational War Motivational America Lost Rooms History Military Television Comfort Vietnam Vietnam War Brutality Battlefields Living Room

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.”

Men Want Faces Rooms History Expression Historical Squares Ancestor Traits Inches

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.”

Peace Rooms History Dove Bombers

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

Book Ideas Reading Rooms History Birth Library Thought Provoking Librarian Delivery Public Library Incense Library Books Libraries And Librarians Modifying Delivery Room

Book:Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey