Quotes About History

carried on for centuries in the name of Christ by the command of those who claimed to be the vicars of Christ. They are still honored with that title by this Church, which has never admitted that the Inquisitions were wrong. She has not repented or apologized, and she dares to pose even today as the supreme teacher and example of morals and truth. Remember also that the doctrines which supported the Inquisitions remain in force within the Roman Catholic Church even at the present time.

America isn't perfect, nor could any nation ever be, but that she has granted more people more freedoms than any other country in the history of the world.

From Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to Abraham Lincoln's ending of slavery, it's pasty white dudes who've enshrined your ability to hate them.

Thus apocalypses set an audience's space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience's time in the context of a sacred history of God's activity and carefully defined plan.

One of the greatest ironies of the history of Christianity is that its leaders constantly gave in to the temptation of power—political power, military power, economic power, or moral and spiritual power—even though they continued to speak in the name of Jesus, who did not cling to his divine power but emptied himself and became as we are.

Could there be another civil war in the United States?

It is said that you are a New Yorker the moment you remember the way New York used to be. This miraculous place lives to obliterate its history. It is history as fashion. Trend. Moments. Moments lost and... overwritten. You have to hunt the past in NY. Not like Prague. Budapest. Krakow. Paris. Istanbul. These places wear their pasts with honor over their hearts. A woman. Not a girl. New York... is youth. Always trying on new masks, new faces.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

Twain had found Palestine to be very tiny, writing that he "could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

Simply because you've lived through something doesn't mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.

You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can't live there.

The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .

He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters. Most folks were right-handed, and back then a man wanted to keep his sword or jousting pole closest to his enemy.

He now stood outside on the curb in front of a modern building in the middle of a city that had seen more prosperous days. It was making a comeback of sorts, to the extent that steel, asphalt, and concrete and the populations that reside in and on them can have second chances. And it was a historical city with many sites of cultural significance that could draw tourists.

Russians. They were in Germany

Stone threw some weeds into a garbage pail and then spent some time shoring up an old tombstone that marked the resting place of a prominent African American preacher who'd lost his life in the fight for freedom. Odd, thought Stone, that one had to fight for freedom in the freest land on earth.

Which goes to show an appreciation of history can be very helpful in day-to-day living.

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The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.

It's interesting that many of the best instructors in early America were Scottish Presbyterians. As historian George Marsden affirmed, "[I]t is not much of an exaggeration to say that outside of New England, the Scots were the educators of eighteenth-century America."7 These Scottish instructors regularly tutored students in what was known as the Scottish Common Sense educational philosophy –

This is why Frederick Douglass (unlike many Americans today who have never taken the time to study the Constitution) could therefore emphatically declare that the Constitution – all of the Constitution – was anti-slavery.

While Republicans were working to end slavery and secure civil rights, the new nation of southern Democrats was determined to head in an opposite direction.