Quotes About History

The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular.

SHE IS ON RECORD, SHE IS THE RECORD!

Prepare the ground as Firestone may, insisting on the sober materialist approach to analysis, tracking the history, there is a sense here, that despite all this, technology continually exceeds its assigned role — if that role is simply to be the instrument through which to realize the possible in the real. It contains something more, a desire: the state of feminism is such that it needs something, and technology becomes that, or comes to stand for that something.

Weil Gottes Wort in der Geschichte und das heißt in der Vergangenheit zu uns gesprochen hat, darum ist die Erinnerung, die Wiederholung des Gelernten täglich nötige Übung.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

It should come as no surprise that the defense of racial slavery gave rise to a profoundly reactionary worldview.

majority of the men who held political office and led the movement for a separate southern nation were planters or substantial slaveholders,

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

United States history is that of a country that does whatever it wants to by any means necessary . . . but when it comes to your and my interest, then all of this means become limited," he argued. "We are dealing with a powerful enemy, and again, I am not anti-American or un-American. I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power." What

The Ku Klux Klan is the invisible government of the United States," he told his followers at Liberty Hall in 1922, and it "represents to a great extent the feelings of every real white American.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

India was free... broken in parts... bruised, but free. There was an essential unity to India that no partition could destroy.

History was alive and entangled in the everyday stories of India, and it needed to be coaxed onto the pages of a book. In that sense, history was a woman, substantial, vigorous, complex and always given the customary short shrift.

Bapu could not bear the thought of India being partitioned, but the bitter truth was that in the hearts of Indians, lines were already drawn.

Gandhi. Jinnah. Patel. Three men from Gujarat who had worked together as one team at one time for one goal, Now the British were leaving, goal achieved, but the team had fractured.

Kashmir and Hyderabad were the two apples of princely India that were the rosiest, and on the thorniest branch too.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

Porque la historia es la memoria colectiva de la humanidad, es el análisis del desarrollo de los hombres en sociedad; y eso no puede reducirse a la acción de un solo hombre, por influyente que haya sido

Not what it could have been: It is what it was. And what it was is dead. Octavio Paz, Lesson of Things, 1955

La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.

Nada es excepcional. En todo lugar han sucedido todas las cosas, aún las más inverosímiles y raras, porque el mundo es muy viejo y hace largo tiempo ya que no inventa, que no renueva su stock de posibilidades.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?