“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Mary Karr once wrote, “In the entire history of anxiety worldwide, telling someone to calm down has worked zero times.” — Jaime Lowe Copy Share Image
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he… — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God,… — Carol K. Carr Copy Share Image
“In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston,… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history… — Sebastian Koch Copy Share Image
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time. — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
The privilege of serving my country is not only rooted in my military service, but also in my personal history. I sit… — Alexander Vindman Copy Share Image
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record, — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location. — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation—a primary principle in permaculture.” — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than… — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.” — Evan D.G. Fraser Copy Share Image
If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. — David Landes Copy Share Image
“Our founding fathers understood that republics were vulnerable; they knew that “many republics in history, such as the Roman republic, had been… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Because if you don’t think you were born to run, you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
