History Quote by Wesley Lowery

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or…

— Alexandra Petri

“Such were the contradictions of manhood, Ferguson discovered. Your heart could be broken, but your gonads kept telling you to forget about your heart.”

— Paul Auster

“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“the unwritten rule of engagement had been “If it looks hostile, shoot it.”

— Rick Bragg

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns…

— Angela Davis

“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far past the…

— Wesley Lowery

“American Tragedy: The Inside Story of the Simpson Defense,”

— Mike Gilbert

“By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?”

— Scott Anderson

“It was a modern massacre: urban in origin, driven by ideology, fueled by the press, and abetted by politicians from afar.”

— Helmut Walser Smith

“The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him…

— Larry Correia