Quotes About History

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.

Let's learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China's Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

In 1972-73, the Soviets began running operations against me. In 1977, these operations became very serious.

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the catastrophic damage that began with the meeting of Igor Gouzenko and the RCMP.

Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It is a very difficult one.

I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.