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Quotes About History

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.
~ Claudette Colvin
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
~ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!
~ Paula White
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
~ Amartya Sen
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
~ Dolores Huerta
Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
~ Al Pacino
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
~ Karl Marx
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
~ Edward Said
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.
~ Cheikh Anta Diop
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
~ Carter G. Woodson
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.
~ Frantz Fanon
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
~ Edward Said
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
~ Amilcar Cabral
Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.
~ Marcus Garvey
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.
~ Chuck Smith
Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid's history
~ Marco Reus
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
~ Antonio Gramsci
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.
~ Noam Chomsky
Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
~ Richard Pryor