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“When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”

“Interactive website about Jacob Lawrence's life and work.”

“Jacob Lawrence, Interior Scene , Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio”

“…My early beginnings, as most Negroes in the United States, has been the Negro experience. This is all I knew at one time was the Negro experience. My whole background, Negro family, Negro community, everything was Negro. So I think it was natural that I would use this symbol for my expression, you see…”

“‘The migrants kept coming’ is a refrain of triumph over adversity. If it rings true for you today, then it must still strike a chord in our American experience.”

“The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website, works at Phillips Collection”

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— Dana Milbank

Literature1968

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"The aims and ideals of the Soviet revolution inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of millions of people in the 1930s, during World War II, and in the postwar reconstruction period. This explains the Sovi…"

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Politics1921–1981

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"Religious people often say that religion offers absolute certainty about right and wrong; "god tells them" what it is. Even supposing that the aforementioned gods exist, and that the believers really …"

— Richard Stallman

Technology1953

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"Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to…"

— Carl von Clausewitz

Military1780–1831

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