All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.