This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It’s truly unbelievable.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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