Black history is celebrated only one month (in February) and then that's it, it's over. It should be celebrated the whole year. Great things from African-American leaders in our county take place all the time.
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ABERJHANI There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point i... ERIN O'CONNOR The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year c... RUTH BADER GINSBURG the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths DAN BROWN The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts. CAMILA ALVES Cerner is a company that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1999. NEAL PATTERSON A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline o... LEE KUAN YEW Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must... RONALD REAGAN One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized, JULIE CHRISTIE We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans h... YVETTE CLARKE National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance fo... LOIS CAPPS There is some nice history in here. You can see how they celebrated 100 years ago. KAREN HECHLER Dear ignoramuses, Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddler... JENNY COLGAN It seemed to me that life in America was one long series of festivities, all of them celebrated with... FIROOZEH DUMAS If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be do... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The series has celebrated from the beginning in (creator/former executive producer) Aaron (Sorkin)'s... JOHN WELLS The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE All of our existing clubs showed a year-over-year increase in revenue in February. Our Club Onyx in ... ERIC LANGAN To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of chi... PLUTARCH Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings s... DAVID AIELLO I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, wh... PETER SAUL Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political poi... MICHELLE PHAN I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contr... DAVID PLOUFFE Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit. KID ROCK Two weeks ago we celebrated the highest ever sale in the Guardian's 184-year history. Seven days lat... CAROLYN MCCALL You should not waste life in spending proving right and wrong. You leave all things to its place as ... DR. SHAILESH THAKER You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be... AGATHA CHRISTIE When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of h... SUNDAY ADELAJA R.C. Hickman's work poignantly captures the social history of African Americans in a period of unequ... ANGELA WILLIAMS Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the out... EVAN THOMAS It will go down as one of the great moments in sportsmanship. He could have hugged his mates and cel... BRETT LEE The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an eng... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party. LORD MAYOR There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser... UMBERTO ECO African-American history is American history. JOYCE WILLIAMS Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality,... TYLER COWEN Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols... ROSABETH MOSS KANTER A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated bet... AMAL CLOONEY I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place. COTE DE PABLO For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. JOE BIDEN Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from ever... LEWIS THOMAS Not love but hatred is what we should be ashamed of, love needs to be celebrated; always. QAMAR KHAN QURESHI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and... RABINDRANATH TAGORE There are many African-Americans who really don't know what their family history is, and so they're ... ELBRA WEDGEWORTH It's not hard at all. We're both able to do it. Let's just not blow it way out of proportion. We wer... DONOVAN MCNABB When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph. KRITI SANON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they... GERALD MORRIS Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of Americ... SUSAN SONTAG Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it&... HANYA YANAGIHARA I see this all over the place. It's fine during Black History Month to talk about Rosa Parks or Mart... DENA SAMUELS The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in
the history of America. I am apt... JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off ba... PRINCE OF WALES CHARLES The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off... PRINCE OF WALES CHARLES The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off ba... PRINCE CHARLES The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt ... JOHN ADAMS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. ... JODI PICOULT There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is l... BILL O'REILLY In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here ... C.G. JUNG I am fascinated by African history, its leaders, humanity and camaraderie. I am optimistic that one ... RANKOPA HERMAN MOLEFI The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives... DAN RATHER In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA It (his death) is something that cannot be celebrated, because he departs with the truth about many, STEVE BIKO The fiesta would be celebrated for two and a half weeks, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 15 or 16. They had ho... ARMANDO VARGAS I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pi... DENIS LEARY The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only... KARYN PARSONS I hope people understand how stupid segregation is. People should never judge a book by its color. B... EUGENE RICHARDSON We are certainly proud to recognize Black History Month in our city. DERRICK CHOICE This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE
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