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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' 2009

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 2001

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) 1721

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 2010

One of their ancestors is Lakeridge Charlemagne, for example.

Field & Stream 2010

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’ 2009

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 2009

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 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

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 2010

One of their ancestors is Lakeridge Charlemagne, for example.

Field & Stream 2010