Logic, it is true, must yield to history.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
The “we” refers to Blacks.
Nothing is more difficult, in general, than to make a nation perceive anything as true, or seek its own interest, in any manner but as its forefathers have opined and acted.
The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
