Quotes by Taylor Branch

About Taylor Branch:

Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy — collectively called America in the King Years — was released in January 2006, and a selected summary of the trilogy, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was released in 2013.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

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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.

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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.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameTaylor Branch
  • DescriptionAmerican historian
  • BornJanuary 14, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian; Author
  • WorksAmerica In The King Years
  • AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program; Pulitzer Prize For History; National Humanities Medal