When it comes to true humility in the face of history nothing beats complete silence.
Time and time again history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.
Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Right around the end of the fifties college students and young people in general began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
But whenever history is in the making there's some kind of intangible feeling.
Meditation while walking has a long noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric able to take in current events history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers because they're black can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.