History teaches us that men and nations behave wis...

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.