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 …

- 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 shoul…

- Taylor Branch

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 n…

- 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 o…

- Taylor Branch

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

- Taylor Branch

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

- 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 …

- 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

History is the key to citizenship.

- Taylor Branch