Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.
I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
