Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage. It took...
Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country, the novelist Sinclair Lewis
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of oth...
William L. Shirer, who had covered Nazi Germany, wrote on returning home. I had seen these poisons grow into ugly witch hunting and worse in the totalitarian lands abroad, but I was not prepared to fi...
The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.
Writing in 1903, the scholar, historian, and activist W.E.B. Du Bois observed that the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line, and, while Du Bois was surely right, it is cor...