People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.