I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began… — Martha Dodd Copy Share Image
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
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Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
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The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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