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

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

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

- Taylor Branch

History is the key to citizenship.

- 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

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure 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

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