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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.Collection: History
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.Collection: History
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.Collection: History
I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.Collection: History
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.Collection: History
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.Collection: History
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.Collection: History
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.Collection: History
Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.Collection: History
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.Collection: History
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.Collection: History
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Collection: History
I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I'm home. From the people to the food to the history, there's just no place like it.Collection: History
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.Collection: History
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.Collection: History
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Collection: History
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.Collection: History
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.Collection: History
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.Collection: History
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Collection: History
It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.Collection: History
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.Collection: History
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.Collection: History
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy.Collection: History
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?Collection: History
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.Collection: History
For anyone who has ever asked why the U.S. needs to address the issue of reparations for its history of slavery, Donald Trump is why. He is the living embodiment of America's unresolved issues.Collection: History
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.Collection: History
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.Collection: History
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.Collection: History
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.Collection: History
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.Collection: History
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Collection: History
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.Collection: History
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.Collection: History
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.Collection: History
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.Collection: History
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'Collection: History
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.Collection: History
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.Collection: History
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Collection: History
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.Collection: History
Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.Collection: History
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.Collection: History
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.Collection: History
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.Collection: History
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.Collection: History
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.Collection: History
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.Collection: History