Quotes About History

American history hugs colorblindness. If you can't see race you certainly can't see racial responsibility. You can simply remain blind to your own advantages.

Black bodies have been killed and progress has been stalled to provide white comfort.

Yes it is true . . . America is a racist country.

In 1968 King said the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were penned by men who owned slaves, thus, a "nation that got started like that . . . has a lot of repenting to do.

Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American race and politics.

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

we must reckon with the plague of police brutality and how it has ravaged Black communities for three centuries. The cops remain in large part violent enforcers of white supremacy.

Slavery made America a slave to black history. As much as white America invented us, the nation can never be free of us now. America doesn't even exist without us. That's why Barack Obama was so offensive, so scary to white America. America shudders and says to itself: The president's supposed to be us, not them. In that light, Donald Trump's victory was hardly surprising.

Instead, we are two symbols in a 400-year-old battle of guilt and innocence.

Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives. The spoils we reaped from forcing people to work without wages and treating them with grievous inhumanity continue to haunt us in a racial gulf that seems impossible to overcome.

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.

What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best you can, to surrender your innocence, to reject the willful denial of history and to live fully in our complicated present with all of the discomfort it brings. Many

Twas the night before Christmas, at a town in the South, A band of ex-Confederates gathered, down in the mouth; That the black man was now free, they felt was unfair, An abomination they'd address with terror to spare; Crosses they'd burn with white hoods on their head, Spreading their message of hate with horror and dread." Yes, ringing in the season with Yuletide cheer, the Ku Klux Klan was officially organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865.

around Frederick, just as it had around George

There's an ocean of hermit literature; I began my reading on one shore, with Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching (I recommend the Red Pine translation), and started swimming from there. Excellent explorations of the history and motivations of hermits include Solitude by Anthony Storr, A Pelican in the Wilderness by Isabel Colegate, Hermits by Peter France, and Solitude by Philip Koch.

Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.

The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride - and prive loves loss above surrender.

Tüm diktatörlerin gayet iyi kavrad??? üzere, gelece?i de?i?tirmek isteyen önce geçmi?i de?i?tirmek zorundad?r.

We should beware of the errors of judging eras and places according to the prevailing standards of here and now.

screenings of the documentary about the Juderia made by Rebecca Samonà, the granddaughter of Victoria Sidis Licitri and Ernesto Licitri, who had turned to Stella for help understanding her family's unexplored past. On other evenings there were conversations, between Stella and her cousin Isabelle Levy; between Stella and her former neighbor,

Margrethe slips into history even as I turn back to Bohr. And yet how much more difficult still it is to catch the slightest glimpse of what's behind one's eyes. Here I am at the centre of the universe, and yet all I can see are two smiles that don't belong to me.

History of Magic?

Professor Binns

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington