Quotes About History

Not surprisingly, the region also oozes Native American mysticism and legend. The Yuma culture was in the valley five thousand years before the birth of Christ.

He'd been told there are centuries-old petroglyphs in Dark Canyon, some of which depict the skinwalker.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge…. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

Q: Why write about slavery? Haven't we had enough stories about slavery? Why do we need another one? A: I could have written about upper middle class white people who feel sad sometimes, but there's a lot of competition.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Learning about All that has come before, is the greatest of allies in the fight for the future.

Stories have always been told, from the very beginning of existence; I'm just carrying on this tradition.

The cultures and arts of times are reflections of the people whom lived during those times.

To make history, first you must learn history.

We, as a generation, must think about how we wish to be remembered.

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

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We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Nothing in the past can convincingly point to [a black swan's] possibility.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure.