Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this…

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a…

— Douglas Wilder

I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations in any…

— W. Kamau Bell

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead…

— Betty Friedan

“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or…

— Alan DeNiro

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities,…

— Jason Alexander

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because…

— Dita Von Teese

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out…

— Robert Toombs

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead.…

— Josh Fox

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the…

— John Wayne

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

— Anonymous

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the…

— Marc Andreessen

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of…

— Ben Brantley

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate…

— Benjamin Tucker

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this…

— Yvette Clarke