Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

I am dreaming of entrepreneurs who earn by giving.

I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.