Quotes About History

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

I've always known that there are conflicting issues going on where I'm from. It's always been that way.

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

Americans don't mind rich politicians. History is full of them. What they do mind are people who ask for their vote but don't connect with them.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

The Black church has been the conscience of America.

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

All great peoples are conservative.

I come from a very conservative background.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.