Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. – Ruth Benedict
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever. – Randy Forbes
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. – Paul Merton
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It’s useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters. – Rick Atkinson
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters. – Robert McChesney
I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am. – Randy Houser
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the ‘EZ Tax.’ My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. – Rand Paul
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as ‘a black armband version’ of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism. – Richard Flanagan
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life. – Pawan Kalyan
I’m my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it. – Raekwon
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. – Paul Sarbanes
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. – Reinhold Niebuhr
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside – like God, for example. – Phillip E. Johnson
I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn’t have the romantic history of the West. – Robert Taylor
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd
If you go back to any period in India’s history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power. – P. Chidambaram
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. – Richard Lamm
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. – Robert Kiyosaki
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn’t show systematic change over human history. But they do. – Paul Bloom
My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film. – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Over the years, a lot of rappers – Lil’ Wayne, Ice Cube – have used my name in their songs. I’m a real touchstone of history. – Rodney King
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. – Peabo Bryson
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture. – Preet Bharara
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. – Pamela Hanson
I went to jail 44 times. I’ve been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom… Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that? – Ralph Abernathy