I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Jackie added in White's article, read by millions, that the Kennedy administration had been Camelot, "a magic moment in American history, when… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
“Far from being freaks, the Hell's Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked at their… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“Phoebe Hurty hired me to write copy for ads about teen aged clothes. I had to wear the clothes I praised. That… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has… — Anohni Copy Share Image
At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“How do you know all this?" "Well I don't know what you people from Colorado call it, but around here we call… — Tara A. Fuller Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The Freedom Flag is a powerful, physical reminder of one of the darkest days in American history. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
