Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history. — Rodney King Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history. — George Packer Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes 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
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
It is not, nor will it ever be, white people's responsibility to teach black children our unique American history. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“They weren't protected by our own laws. They were on their own. Doesn't sound terribly American. On the contrary, it's very American,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. — Marco Rubio 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
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
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
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Women’s March was the biggest single protest in American history. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities like New York,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Chebeague Island is the largest of the islands in Casco Bay, near Portland Maine. Everyone knew everybody else on the island, and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet) 99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west, either directly or retrospectively. No… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
“For all his early-morning bravado, Bannon sounded as if he still couldn’t quite believe it all. And what an incredible story it… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Sixty years prior to the death of “Che” Guevara and high in the same Bolivian highlands, Butch Cassidy and Harry A. Longabaugh,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba 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
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other. — William Barr Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
