Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. - Henry Louis Gates

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. - Henry Louis Gates

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. - Henry Louis Gates

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. - Henry Louis Gates

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. - Henry Louis Gates

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am. - Henry Louis Gates

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