American history Quote by Suzy Witten Download Open image ““Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think!”” — Suzy Witten ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American history
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“The Salem [witch] trials…can be seen as an example of the propensity of the American people to be convulsed by spasms of self-righteous rage… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into despair, naturalness… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“We’ll join the trial already in progress; Bridget has just been asked by Judge Hathorne to talk about how she bewitched the girls of… — Susan Fair Copy Share Image
“Another reason I’m intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The Puritan witch hunts may be long over, but something fanatical about unruly women still lurks in our national subconscious.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as a symbol… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“This was bad. Witches could cause a lot of trouble for the village. This was good.” — Diary Wimpy Copy Share Image
“Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image