Quotes About History

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

I played with the Clippers when Golden State really wasn't cracking like that and Oracle Arena was still jumping.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A. Philharmonic and feel that Giulini was there.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

A nation is an organic thing.

2 Chainz and I have a history. It's always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.

When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

I knew about Inter's history, and it's beautiful to be part of such a glorious and well organised club.