I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we’re all creatures of the same God.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
It’s down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
Our history is not our destiny.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Why can’t I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I’m depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
