Black Historian Quotes

#1. It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

John Hope Franklin

#2. Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

Vikki Wakefield

#4. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

#5. The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

John Henrik Clarke

#6. He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit.

Robert Harris

#7. The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.

Mary Stewart

#8. They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.

Heidi R. Kling

#9. But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.

R.D. Blackmore