“It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.”
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“No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.”
“I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.”
“There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.”
“Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?”
“I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.”
“But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?”
“I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.”
“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.”
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”
“I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.”
“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”
“I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.”
“Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.”
“Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.”
“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”
“Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.”
“The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.”
“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
“My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.”
“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.”
“America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.”
“What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.”