ancestors

• “But being proud of who you are and your ancestors is a personal issue, and the government should stay out of, and so should everyone else.”

  GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'

• “And that the children of the unwanted should be those that returned to the old world in convoys and troops ships to liberate Italy and France and Holland and the countries which didn't want their ancestors is an idea that's almost Shakespearean.”

  The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project

• “To justify the imprecations of vengeance upon the sinner's posterity, the sin of his ancestors is here brought into the account (v. 14, 15), the iniquity of his fathers and the sin of his mother.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “The real work of global abolition, a pledge written in the blood of our ancestors, is a complex struggle.”

  Clinton takes up Lincoln’s ‘unfinished work’

• “For some persons of indigenous ancestry the judicial receptivity to the right to be consulted, money damages and practicing the occasional hunting or fishing technique as did their ancestors, is a bird in the hand.”

  The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians” : Law is Cool

• “One of their ancestors is Lakeridge Charlemagne, for example.”

  Field & Stream

• “But she was ever a careless child, and honored not her ancestors from the time the Beaver, son of the son of Zing-ha, first cast eyes upon her.”

  THE LAW OF LIFE

• “My own connection with ancestors is one of my most treasured relationships – it is always my sense that, to the best of their abilities, they are looking out for us.”

  A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi

• “A characteristic present in both the outgroups and the ancestors is called a plesiomorphy (meaning "close form," as in close to the root ancestor; also called an ancestral state).”

  A Disclaimer for Behe?

• “Moving through grief into honoring of the ancestors is central in the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations, which are now available in American cities.”

  The Huffington Post: Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations

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