It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility.