American-history Quotes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageou...

The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the effici...

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with bl...

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and ...

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who ...

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to...

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of...

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tend...