With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wi...
Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
Derek Vinyard: One in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system. Is that a coincidence or do these people have, you know, like a racial commitment to crime?
No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, approximately 15,000 to 36,000 white women have been raped by black men every year, while, on average, zero black women are raped by black men." (The Depa...
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Eraritjaritjaka albutjika Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for home In the heat of the sun to return home ... 'Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love the...
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.
I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, poli...
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
