But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

We can not understand when we are pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He is been bridging divisions his whole life.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man being, unfolding itself in thought.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.