Forward Quote by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we…

— Tariq Ramadan

Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to…

— Everett Case

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually…

— Christopher Dawson

What we still haven't done is really learned and embraced our history. When we do that, we'll no longer be doubtful and fearful that…

— Susan L. Taylor

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to…

— Warren Mundine

There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a…

— Henry Knox

“No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be allowed to distort our universal human understanding…

— Anonymous

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

— Naguib Mahfouz

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

“The issue is not indifference to established knowledge; it’s the emergence of a positive hostility to such knowledge. This is new in American culture,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

— Thabo Mbeki