“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”
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“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.”
“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
“Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.”
“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.”
“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.”
“In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.”
“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.”
“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.”
“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.”
“History takes time. History makes memory.”
“The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.”
“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”
“The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”
“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.”
“You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.”
“You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.”
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
“Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.”
“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.”
“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”
“There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.”
“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.”