The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn’t laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
I went to white schools and I didn’t know anything about black history.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don’t understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Watching Rachel Maddow is like going to Target. You went in for milk, but you left with shampoo, candles, and the entire history of the Byzantine Empire. ‘I didn’t need this.’
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
During Black History Month, I’m reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers’ rights.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
I’m honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing – to be successful and make history.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.
