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fore·fa·thers

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  1. List of paraphrases for "forefathers":

    ancestors, forebears, great-grandfathers, predecessors, fathers, forbears

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  1. Lia Rensin:

    You've got this fundamental theory that the United States has notchanged at all in 250-plus years, that we are still white supremacists because we are descendants of our forefathers, and then you have violence ... as the means of change, ...It's very clearly indoctrination, and because of that, they're completely subverting the parental role.

  2. Justice Robert H. Jackson:

    Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

  3. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins:

    My forefathers and mothers died for us to have the opportunity to vote, I cannot participate in voter intimidation and voter criminalization, we were told in 2020 some of the safest elections occurred across this country, so I will not participate in destroying things that I believe are ok.

  4. Menachem Begin:

    We return to the land of our forefathers not by the right of might but by the might, so that all our citizens, residents may live in peace, May citizens

  5. Eric Ogbemudia:

    We will be happy if those stolen artefacts are brought back to Benin. But they stole them. Those items are the works of our forefathers and they are very unique to us.


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