It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high idealistic motives and idealism in our time has been shoved aside and we are paying the penalty for it.

Black history is American history.

Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to possess a total explanation have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Yeah I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history too.

Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.