Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options. — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. — Edward Furlong Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history. — Colson Whitehead 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
The Freedom Flag is a powerful, physical reminder of one of the darkest days in American history. — Abigail Spanberger 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
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
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
“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972,… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
“Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“As the late Charles Colson put it, “Our place is on our knees, in the streets helping people in need, winning our… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For this equality belongs to the post-Renaissance world of ideology-of political magic and the alchemical science” of politics. Envy is the basis… — M.E. Bradford Copy Share Image
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other. — William Barr Copy Share Image
“schools and teacher forbites the students to tell a lie, but they teach them lies,” — Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
