Brought Quote by Loretta Lynch

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

— Barack Obama

“The country was so vast, of course, that one or a hundred or a thousand men could have very little effect. And how, anyway,…

— Karen Fisher

“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close to fifty…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life…

— Donal Ryan

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the…

— Anne Mallory

“It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack of prospects,…

— Philipp Meyer

“The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her uniquely inclusive economic institutions. These in turn were built on…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second…

— Tim Harford

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need…

— Elisabeth Shue

“Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.”

— Jon Meacham