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
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I read about it in Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The infamous Fray Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, who had sniveled around the Royal Court wanting to become a favorite of the… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“It has been often said that the winners write history. Cooperatives have been widespread and important in many periods of American history,… — John Curl Copy Share Image
“For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“His voice was so faint that it was audible only to those in the first rows. “I haven’t got much to say,… — Kimberly Tilley Copy Share Image
What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my… — Lynne Tillman 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
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“The story quilt in the novel was inspired by the magnificent quilts of Harriet Powers, an enslaved woman from Georgia who used… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image