Quotes About History

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.