Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.

The Shadow Speaker

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

A People's History of the United States

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

A People's History of the United States

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

The History of Love

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

The History of Love

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit

The History of Love

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.

The History of Love

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

The History of Love

Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.

The History of Love