Battle Quote by Rachel Maddow

“I first heard of antisemitism only later, when my father told me how Oswald Mosley had fomented riots in the thirties by marching his…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Sir Oswald Mosley thought his job is not just keep Britain from going to war with his beloved Germany, he saw it as his…

— Rachel Maddow

“In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis…

— Nat Hentoff

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

— Tom Paulin

“On June 8, 1946, Britain staged an elaborate victory parade, inviting armed forces from more than thirty Allied nations to London in a joyous…

— Lynne Olson

“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister,…

— William Stevenson

One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister…

— Ella Baker

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans…

— Rick Atkinson

You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all…

— David Maraniss

“Most of the blacks who took part in the riots of 1966 and 1967 apparently did not expect much in the way of tangible…

— James T. Patterson

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

— Linford Christie