I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical…

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black…

— Manning Marable

Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want…

— Megyn Kelly

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I…

— Barack Obama

“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you…

— Lesley Hazleton

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

— Wes Craven

“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure has ever…

— John D. Barrow

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest…

— Karen Armstrong

“In telling these stories of our Nation's past, however, let's not be so zealous in correcting liberal historians that we create our own historical…

— Gregg Harris

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair…

— Vincent Piazza

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as…

— Peter O'Toole

Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their…

— Timothy Simons

I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and…

— Patricia McConnell

“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical…

— Karl Marx

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…

— Pat Barker