“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think…Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Joe Biden is the worst president of my lifetime and might just be the worst president in American history. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
To support its conclusion that 'this is a religious people... this is a Christian nation,' the Court paraded a veritable litany of… — David Barton Copy Share Image
What the left are trying to do is to persuade millions of Americans that America itself is so unjust and illegitimate from… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I started these Rush Revere and these children's books, I mean, there was a mission. It was to teach the truth of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president’s views of foreign policy and the world… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In Havana, Vito Genovese, the patriarch of the Genovese family, met with Luciano in his room at the luxurious Hotel Nacional. Genovese… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“You have probably seen the order from Washington which cuts down the pay for colored troops from $13 to $10. Of course… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image