Quotes About Resilience

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

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

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Stand up and walk out of your history

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

History paints the human heart.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.