Quotes About History

Talvez seja este o sentido mais exato da alfabetização: aprender a escrever a sua vida como autor e como testemunha de sua história, isto é, biografar-se, existenciar-se, historicizar-se.

Primeiro: o movimento interno que unifica os elementos do método e os excede em amplitude de humanismo pedagógico. Segundo: esse movimento reproduz e manifesta o processo histórico em que o homem se reconhece. Terceiro: os rumos possíveis desse processo são possíveis projetos e, por conseguinte, a conscientização não é apenas conhecimento ou reconhecimento, mas opção, decisão, compromisso.

Es por esto que [la educación liberadora] reconoce [a las personas] como seres que están siendo, como seres inacabados, inconclusos en y con una realidad que siendo historia es también tan inacabada como ellos. [...] De [la inconclusión de las personas y la conciencia que de ella tienen] que sea la educación un quehacer permanente. Permanente en razón de la inconclusión de los seres humanos y del devenir de la realidad.

Testemunhando objetivamente sua história, mesmo a consciência ingênua acaba por despertar criticamente, para identificar-se como personagem que se ignorava e é chamada a assumir seu papel.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

The decision by the British in 1911 to build New Delhi, without integrating the old city with the new, sealed the fate of Shahjahanabad. From then onwards, purani Dilli would live on but only like an ageing courtesan abandoned by her new suitors, waiting to die.

The Languages, Peoples and History of the U.S.S.R.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

he who forgets will be destined to remember...

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But what is happening in America today is, I think, unparalleled in history. We are rising to the top and falling to the bottom; we are becoming wealthier as individuals and baser as a society; we are more powerful than ever and less mindful; we share a level of prosperity that is so high that it is a new thing in history, unprecedented in the story of man, and yet this wonderful thing we share has not made us closer as a people. And this has implications.

history is not only made by people, it is people.

Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.

My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

A genuinely seismic event in American history, the Birmingham protests cleaved the nation in two, forcing citizens of all backgrounds to take honest measure of the intersection between race and democracy in national life.

During the Second Reconstruction, which, as mentioned earlier, lasted from the Brown decision in 1954 until the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, reconstructionists won important legislative victories in bills declaring formal segregation unconstitutional.

The Confederacy lost the war but resoundingly won the peace.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.