Quotes About History

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

Argentina has never been able to convince itself that it can win in Brazil. For some reason we have always struggled.

I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been.

There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for the struggles of ordinary people.

The new generation I feel does not know about Milka Singh, they don't know about the hard work I did, what struggles I went through, in Pakistan and India, they know just the name.

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.

To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.