Abraham Quote by Bill Ayers

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall…

— Samuel Smiles

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they…

— Bernard Hopkins

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

— Al Sharpton

“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and…

— Ron Chernow

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

— Akeem Ayers

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I…

— George Edward Woodberry

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a…

— Zhu Rongji

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing -…

— Colson Whitehead

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a…

— Chris Matthews

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

— Mitt Romney

“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.”

— John Stuart Mill

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to…

— Keith Carradine