A man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived from the beginning of the world and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but in the need that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

You look at the greatest villains in human history the fascists the autocrats they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease I think is gonna be guinea worm.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power sending messages. Interestingly enough it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Americans believe with all their heart the vast majority of them and the vast majority of Floridians that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things want this want that.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A. from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause as for instance the black man's right to his body or woman's right to her soul.

Whether you like it or not history is on our side. We will bury you!

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.