Quotes About History

I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party that sought the abolition of slavery.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

She was a performance artist calling herself Lady Gaga, who had a European dance-club sound and pop-star aspirations - elements that historically haven't mixed.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

We need to read history from the source.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.