I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

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

The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.