The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

London is a roost for every bird.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.