History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.