Quote by Howard Zinn

“The feeling against the Mormons as expressed by the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was: The blood of American citizens cries for vengeance from…

— Juanita Brooks

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah.…

— Ruth May Fox

“Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep…

— James Lincoln Collier

I wrote a lot of 'A Time to Kill' at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., hiding in little committee rooms, killing time waiting…

— John Grisham

“The Republican Roosevelt wanted to fight plutocrats as well as anarchists. Their plunder of oil, coal, minerals, and timber on federal lands appalled him,…

— Tim Weiner

“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that year in…

— Herman E. Kittredge

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

— Jimmy Breslin

“We smashed their schools, burned them, and shot people based on the time of night they were outside. They dressed up like our allies…

— Brian Huskie

“I’m at Fetzer Hall now and am about to sweep through the soldiers between us like a fucking tidal wave.” “Damn it, we need…

— Dianne Duvall

“What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by the decision…

— Jonathan Kozol

“his former boss at CIA, Simpson had still been sitting in death, only with him instead of a car seat it was a ladder-back…

— David Baldacci

“chairman of the Washington Post Company, in a one-word e-mail I received the morning after the story appeared. A German filmmaker, who happened to…

— Blaine Harden