“If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.” IfsKnowsStatesReasonWholeTermWhiteUnitedRaceUnited StatesLateConceptsTricksColonyDescentWhitenessWhite Race Author:Tim Wise
“I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.” IfsFirstsNextCausesSidesUnitedGoes OnConnectionsUnionsValuableMotiveBritainCheerAlliesSpeakersPrincipalRapidsNeighbourColonyGreat Britain Book:Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union Source: Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union
“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.” PeopleWorldWayWarStatesTogetherFightingStuffBornUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesFeminismMiddleDyingChangedPlanetsLifetimeConnectedWar Of The WorldsBombsEmpiresConcentrationCampsColonySecond World WarAtomic BombHiroshimaConcentration CampHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Isabel Allende
“Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” MenStatesAmericaUnitedGreaterOughtDecidedIndependentYesterdayPatrioticResolution4th Of JulyColonyAmerican PatrioticAmerican Patriot Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.” IfsBelieveWarStatesWould BeTodayFatherStrongI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesPathTakenProudRevolutionaryFiftyPatriotBe ProudFoundingColonyThirteenRevolutionary War Author:John Linder