129 Quotes by Alex Haley



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    Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

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    Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

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    if not for oral history, my uncle would not have pursued the history that became the 'Roots' project.

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    Every time an old person dies, it’s like a library burning down.

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    And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ Kunta liked that, but he couldn’t understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

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    Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars – caged. I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there shouldn’t be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.

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