Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Branch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Taylor Branch.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Taylor Branch is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.

American - Author | Born: January 14, 1947

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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Taylor Branch

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Taylor Branch

History is the key to citizenship.

Taylor Branch

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Taylor Branch

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Taylor Branch

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

Taylor Branch

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Taylor Branch

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

Taylor Branch

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

Taylor Branch

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Branch

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