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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.
Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.
Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.