However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is not fictional. It is factual, with information that is historical. It was not written to impress or… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
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That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
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