Us History Quotes

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.