History Quote by Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

— Douglas Wilder

I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations in any…

— W. Kamau Bell

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead…

— Betty Friedan

“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or…

— Alan DeNiro

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,…

— David Brooks

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

— Jaggi Vasudev

It's like when we get the transformer movies. It was all a bunch of smaller robot pieces and then you're on set, and you're…

— Gregory Nicotero

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what…

— David Lange

Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with people who…

— Linden MacIntyre

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody…

— Elinor Ostrom