Quotes About History

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn't had a long history.

The only people remembered in history are the ones that dedicate their lives to service and purpose

Human existence is as a result of the evolution of time

Life evolved from time

We are products of time

Time is the chronological breakdown of life

It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

One of the instruments that really stuck out to me was the talking drum, which is basically the first type of communication device. It's a drum you put on your shoulder, and you can pitch it with your arm, and you can 'talk' with it.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.