Quotes About History

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.

We won the national championship. We went 40-0 - the first men's or women's team in history to ever do that.

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

A white nationalist would claim that flying the confederate flag on a state building is an expression of cultural history, rather than racial sentiment. A white nationalist would claim, as the television host Megyn Kelly once did on Fox News, that Jesus was white, and, by implication, God, too.

I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

In the past, some natives used to collude with Britishers. In the same way, YSRCP is now colluding with Centre.

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.