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Walt Whitman quote on Abraham Lincoln death

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Of all the days of the war, there are two especially I can never forget. Those were the day following the news, in New York and Brooklyn, of that first Bull Ru...

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John Brown quote about life during slavery

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Betty Moore had three daughters. The eldest was married to one Burrell Williams, who acted as Betty’s overseer. The second was the wife of one Jame...

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Coretta Scott King quote: “My father was one…

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“My father was one of the most fearless men I’ve ever met. The racial pressure on him was relentless, but it never broke him. Growing up, he provided me with in...

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President Abraham Lincoln letter to General Grant

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Major General Grant,My dear General I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimab...

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James Baldwin quote: “You think your pain…

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me tha...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on friendship

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson — Sources: Ralph Waldo Emerson Wikiquote / Portrait of Ralph Waldo E...

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Booker T. Washington quote: “The education…

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“The education that I received at Hampton out of the text-books was but a small part of what I learned there. One of the things that impressed itself upon...

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Frida Kahlo quote from letter to Georgia O’Keefe

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“I’ll be in Detroit two more weeks. I would like to tell you every thing that happened to me since the last time we saw each other, but most of them...

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Theodore Roosevelt quote: “My father…

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He wo...

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Helen Keller on learning meaning of think and love

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Miss Sullivan touched my forehead and spelled with decided emphasis, ‘Think.’ In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process tha...

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