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“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.”

People World Humans War Ends States Able Memories United Race Enemy United States Messages Intense Human Race Disgrace

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Memory in America suffers amnesia.”

America Suffering Memories United States Amnesia

Book:Crusaders: the radical legacy of Marian and Arthur Le Sueur

Source: Crusaders: the radical legacy of Marian and Arthur Le Sueur

“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”

Kind States Helping Would Be School Girl Memories United Effort Cities Boys United States Taught Capable Honorable Memorial Monument Livelihood Great Cities

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.”

Country States Whole Wanted Remember Lost Memories Forget United United States Yesterday Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Studs Terkel

“In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.”

Way Should War Ends States Memories United United States Honor Died Seven This Day Memorial Memorial Day Idiocy Those Who Have Died

Author:Andy Rooney

“I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.”

States Young Memories United United States Vietnam Recollection

Author:Khoi Vinh